A Huntington Beach man was sentenced March 18 to more than a year in prison for killing his passenger after drinking and driving.
Vicente Garcia Ramirez, 23, was sentenced to 16 months in state prison after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving without a valid license.
Ramirez was driving in Garden Grove with 22-year-old Joyce Lopez at 2 a.m. Jan. 9 after drinking at a bar and a house party, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.
