Farm worker given 10 years for DUI death

  

MARYSVILLE, Calif. -- A Yuba County farm worker has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in the drunken driving death of a 17-year-old Marysville girl who was on her way to a birthday party.

Fifty-year-old Lorenzo Flores-Aguilar had pleaded guilty to a charge of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

The Yuba County Probation Department had recommended a four-year sentence. But Judge Kathleen O'Connor imposed the maximum 10-year penalty on Friday. Flores-Aguilar will be eligible for parole after five years.

The probation report said Flores-Aguilar didn't feel drunk and didn't realize he was driving on the wrong side of the road when he hit Danielle Woodruff on Highway 20 east of Marysville.