A twice-deported undocumented immigrant previously convicted of the DUI deaths of two teens in an Orange County freeway crash was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 23 to three years and ten months in federal prison for illegally reentering the U.S.
The early release last year of Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano after he served 3 1/2 years of a 10-year sentence for the Nov. 13, 2021 deaths of Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin in a high-speed crash on the southbound 405 Freeway near Seal Beach Boulevard drew outrage from family members of the victims, criticism from federal officials and finger pointing amongst local and state agencies.
Ortega-Anguiano’s early release ignited that national uproar after it became clear that he had twice been deported to Mexico – only to return to the United States prior to the deadly OC crash.
Ortega-Anguiano has since been taken into federal custody on the illegal reentry charges, and U.S. District Judge John W. Holcomb during a hearing Friday at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana sentenced him to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
But, as Ortega-Anguiano’s attorney noted, he also faces near-certain deportation after his prison sentence ends.
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