Posted on 09/30/2008 6:50:36 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Jaguar driver who police said veered onto a Mission District sidewalk at high speed and killed a cafe worker was recently released from prison and was barred from driving, having been punished with license suspensions three times this year, records show.
Jason Yantes was charged Tuesday with felony vehicular manslaughter and unlicensed driving, and was also accused of violating probation orders handed down after a drug-dealing conviction. Yantes is expected to be arraigned Wednesday.
Prosecutors reviewed, among other evidence, footage from a private surveillance camera that captured the crash, authorities said.
Police said Yantes either passed out or fell asleep just after 8 a.m. Monday and ran over Gaspar Caballero, 27, in a 1992 Jaguar convertible XJS that was traveling north on Mission Street near 21st Street. Police said the car was going faster than the 25-mph speed limit.
Yantes, a San Francisco resident, has struggled with drug use, said Miss Major, the organizing director of a nonprofit group with which Yantes volunteered.
San Francisco authorities said Yantes turned 36 on Tuesday, but state records show Yantes is 35 and has a birthday in late October.
Yantes remains at San Francisco General Hospital, where she is recovering from facial and skull injuries suffered in the crash. A law enforcement source said Yantes had cried and expressed remorse for Caballero's death.
"She was dealing with a lot of stuff," said Major, of the Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project, which advocates for transgender inmates. Yantes is a transgender person who identifies as a woman and goes by the name "Lala," Major said.
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Shame about the car, though. :(
San Francisco...the stinky, filthy, big swollen b-hole of the world.
So . . .
A waiter in SF name Gaspar Caballero is run over by a mutilated homosexual in a Jaguar and pleads drug problems.
The world is coming to an end.
This CAN'T be real. Mutants.
How could the person afford both the surgery and a Jag? Did the City of SF pay for his/her/its “operation”?
X-Mutants really do exist.
Calling Stan Lee! Calling Stan Lee!
Maybe my action figures will be worth something now.
Hey, at least (s)he cried about it!
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