A judge ordered a mother Oct. 28 to stand trial for gross vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of drugs when she crashed her car in El Cajon, killing her 3-year-old daughter.
A Jan. 25 trial date was set for Brandy Lee Teague, 32, who sobbed during most of her preliminary hearing before El Cajon Superior Court Judge Lantz Lewis. She was also held to answer for child endangerment and driving on a suspended license.
A judge ordered a mother Oct. 28 to stand trial for gross vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of drugs when she crashed her car in El Cajon, killing her 3-year-old daughter.
A Jan. 25 trial date was set for Brandy Lee Teague, 32, who sobbed during most of her preliminary hearing before El Cajon Superior Court Judge Lantz Lewis. She was also held to answer for child endangerment and driving on a suspended license.
Carlee Ramirez was killed and Teague’s two other children in the car were injured in the April 4 collision into a telephone pole at 1163 Broadway. An El Cajon police officer testified Teague’s young son told her it wasn’t safe for her to drive because she kept falling asleep at the wheel.
Teague pleaded not guilty to all the charges at the end of the hearing that includes a misdemeanor count of possession of methamphetamine. If convicted, she faces almost 15 years in prison. She remains in jail on $1 million bail.
Mistrial declared after jurors deadlocked
A mistrial was declared Oct. 27 after jurors deadlocked following nine days of deliberations in the murder trial of a man who shot and killed a man whom he found sleeping with his ex-girlfriend in Dehesa.
Abel Angel Martinez, 52, was charged with killing Eufracio Albert Enriquez, 35, and attempted murder of Leila Jane Farmer, 40. Attorneys will return to court on Nov. 23 to discuss a possible retrial. The shooting took place at 6:25 a.m. on March 16, 2014, in a residence at the 1500 block of Wilson Road in unincorporated El Cajon.Martinez remains in jail on $2 million bail.
Preliminary hearing set for man charged with fatally beating roommate
A Dec. 16 preliminary hearing was set Oct. 28 for Michael Patrick O’Donnell, 56, who is charged with fatally beating his roommate, on Oct. 13 in El Cajon.
Richard Winslow Hobbs, 72, was found severely beaten to the head in his residence in the 1000 block of Pine Drive. Hobbs later died in a hospital. O’Donnell was arrested Oct. 20, and the weapon was believed to be a baseball bat.
O’Donnell pleaded not guilty to a murder charge before El Cajon Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein, who set bail at $2 million. O’Donnell remains in jail.
