Former police captain Ramón Flores Donaire, 39, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crime of homicide by way of possible intent to the detriment of orthopedic doctor Jorge Ernesto Herrera Chávez, 28. The doctor died on the morning of June 16 on Carretera a Masaya when the vehicle he was driving was hit by the former police officer.
The defendant is also sentenced to one more year in prison for the crime of exposing people to danger to the detriment of Junior Ortega, driver of a vehicle that he hit and to the detriment of Sonia Carolina López Ardón, who was his companion in the truck. in which Flores Donaire was traveling.
Judgment 103-2022 issued by the Ortega judge Ángel Jeancarlos Fernández, of the Fourth Criminal District Court of Managua, establishes that Francisco Flores Donaire must successively serve the sentences beginning with the longest, that is, with the sentence of 12 years corresponding to eventual homicide.
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Upon serving 12 years in prison for the doctor’s homicide, the former police captain will begin his sentence of one more year for the crime of exposing and abandoning people to danger, for a total of 13 years in prison.
The accused was driving at excessive speed and under the influence of alcohol. According to the investigations and the evidence offered by the Prosecutor’s Office, Flores had 1.17 grams of alcohol per liter of blood at the time of the breathalyzer test. A police report indicates that the subject was driving at a speed of between 115 and 125 kilometers per hour, well above the limit allowed on that road, which is 80 kilometers per hour. After the accident he was discharged.
Faced with this situation, the judge Ángel Jeancarlos Fernández pointed out that a former police officer, driving while intoxicated and speeding, “was aware of the potential danger that this meant.”
He stressed that Francisco Flores Donaire, as a former police captain, cannot claim that he is unaware of the country’s laws. “He is a policeman and a lawyer, he is not simply ignorant of the law,” he said.
Likewise, the judge assured that in the trial it was proven that Francisco Flores Donaire showed total contempt for the law by driving drunk, at excessive speed and without the obligatory insurance for damages to third parties. “He did not slow down and did not brake (to avoid the traffic accident) deliberately showing contempt for the possibility of causing damage,” judge Jeanarlos Fernández concluded.
