The person chargeable for the loss of life of a Foster Farms worker in a 2023 hit-and-run incident was once sentenced to a few years in a California state jail.
Melicio Ayala-Hernandez gained his sentence on June 27 in a Fresno County court docket.
The courtroom motion stems from an August 23, 2023, incident, in which Ayala-Hernandez, an worker of a brief company who was once doing paintings for Foster Farms, had entered a car owned via Foster Farms, then started to force it on a Foster Farms ranch in Fresno County. Whilst riding that car, the Ayala-Hernandez struck Foster Farms crew member Jose Romero Aguilera. Ayala did now not forestall, however as a substitute left the valuables. He surrendered to California Freeway Patrol (CHP) officials now not a long way from the place the incident took place.
Aguilera was once taken to a close-by medical institution, the place he died from his accidents.
Consistent with a record from ABC30, Ayala-Hernandez by no means confronted any murder fees, however moderately pleaded no contest to fees of getting a stolen truck and leaving the scene. The case by no means went to trial.
Ayala-Hernandez has remained in custody since his arrest. Whilst his sentence is to serve 3 years, he’ll be given credit score for the time he has already spent incarcerated.