Sentencing is set for April 20 for the drunk driver who killed Hillcrest hair stylist Oscar Melero in 2015 and he is expected to get 14 years and eight months in state prison.
Melero, 52, was killed Feb. 15, 2015 while he was waiting around 7 a.m. in his car to participate in the California 10/20 run on Interstate 5 near Del Mar. He lived in National City.
Abraham Granados Beltran, 25, of San Juan Capistrano, will be sentenced April 20 by San Diego Superior Court Judge Charles Rogers, who was the same judge who heard the preliminary hearing in October 2015.
Beltran pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and a second-degree murder charge was dismissed. Beltran remains in the George Bailey Detention Facility on $1 million bail.
Deputy District Attorney Cally Bright said Beltran has agreed to accept the proposed sentence. Beltran also pleaded guilty to injuring another driver in the collision. Probation was ruled out.
Bright said Beltran had been partying the night before and got no sleep before driving home. Beltran didn’t have a valid driver’s license at the time because it was revoked due to several drunk driving convictions in Orange County in 2011 and 2012.
Melero was inside his BMW, which was stopped in traffic when it was struck by Beltran’s sedan. Beltran’s trial had been set for April and he could have faced a life term if he had been convicted of murder.
