Waukegan woman pleads guilty to driving drunk when causing crash that killed two
A 39-year-old woman pleaded guilty Thursday to being drunk and causing a crash that killed two people sitting at a stop light in Waukegan.
Letisia C. Delgadillo, of Waukegan, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol that resulted in the death of two or more people, Assistant Lake County State's Attorney Tyler Dyson said.
She is facing a mandatory prison sentence of six to 28 years. She is due to be sentenced by Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti on July 15, Dyson said.
Additional charges of aggravated DUI resulting in death and reckless homicide were dropped in exchange for the plea deal, court records show. Delgadillo remains held in Lake County jail on $1 million bail while awaiting her sentencing.
Delgadillo had a blood-alcohol level of more than twice the legal threshold when she drove her 2004 Chevy TrailBlazer through a red light on westbound Grand Avenue at Baldwin Avenue and collided with a Honda Accord at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 26, authorities said.
The Honda then slammed into a 2018 Ford Explorer and the Trailblazer hit a 2001 Chevy Tahoe, authorities said.
Jose Socorro Arroyo-Zavala, 42, from Waukegan, and Laura Orozco Corona, 41, from Guanajuato, Mexico, died in the crash.