Man sentenced to 5 years in fatal hit-run bus stop crash
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A New York man has been sentenced to five years in prison in a hit-and-run crash that killed a woman sitting at a New Jersey bus stop.
Thirty-six-year-old Olvy Torres pleaded guilty earlier to leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death in the Sept. 26 wreck that killed 59-year-old Luisa Valdez. Authorities said Torres fled the North Bergen scene on foot and turned himself in a few days later.
The Jersey Journal reports that that the victim's daughter called him "nothing but a selfish coward" at Friday's sentencing hearing. Torres apologized, saying he had fallen asleep at the wheel.
Police recovered $500,000 in cash and bags of diamonds inside a Bergen County apartment.