A woman and her mother were injured after becoming trapped in the massive 59-car pileup on Highway 99 early Saturday morning while traveling from Oxnard to the Central Valley.
Joseph Velasquez, age 28, of Tulare, was sentenced to 150 years to life in prison for forcible rape and other violent sex crimes Tulare County Superior Court.
A family is still searching for their loved one after she was swept into the Tule River last Thursday. They say they were misled by Tulare County authorities about whether she had been found dead or was still missing.
With the fire department 15 minutes away, witnesses say they knew they had to do something to help.
A Tulare County man named Jose Trujillo is listed as the plaintiff in 31 federal lawsuits that have been filed since the start of 2017, including ten since the beginning of March.
Cecilia Cabrera's husband is charged with her murder but her body still hasn't been found