LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A Las Cruces man has been sentenced to nine years in prison in a vehicular homicide case.
Prosecutors say 40-year-old Angel Saenz also must serve three years of probation with 100 hours of community service in the 2017 death of his ex-girlfriend Sonia Castillo.
He faced charges of homicide by vehicle and knowingly leaving the scene of an accident.
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Saenz was convicted for running over the 42-year-old Castillo with his pickup truck in December 2017.
Authorities say Castillo died at a hospital from multiple injuries sustained in the incident.
According to police records, Castillo had requested a restraining order against Saenz the moth before the fatal hit-and-run accident.
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