Beverly Hills police said today that they will recommend that prosecutors charge a 26-year-old actor with several felonies in connection with a December car crash that killed a Beverly Hills High School student. Lane Garrison, co-star of Fox television’s "Prison Break," was behind the wheel of a 2001 SUV when he lost control and plowed into a tree on South Beverly Drive near Olympic Boulevard on Dec. 2. The crash claimed the life of 17-year-old Vahagn Setian, a popular Beverly Hills High student. Two 15-year-old girls, who were not Beverly Hills High students, were seriously hurt. Authorities said they are seeking at least three charges, including gross vehicular manslaughter, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Beverly Hills police said officers also found containers of alcohol inside Garrison’s SUV. Beverly Hills Police Chief David Snowden said Garrison had a blood-alcohol level of more than 0.15% — about double the state’s legal limit of 0.08%. Investigators presented the case to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, which will decide whether to charge the actor. A spokesman had no immediate comment.
LA Times
I agree with the police that he should be charged with the crime and not get off easy just because he is a celebrity. I am sure he is sorry for what he did, but he was hanging out with minors and he drove drunk. He made the bed I am sure he does not want to lay in.
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TMZ is reporting that they spoke to several witness from the party who saw him doing lines of coke before he went on that fateful drive?
