DUBLIN — In two weeks, a San Jose man is scheduled to be sentenced to four years in state prison through a plea agreement over the 2021 crash that killed two Fremont siblings, aged 6 and 11, court records show.
Cruz Montano Alduenda, 57, pleaded no contest to a single vehicular manslaughter count in the September 2021 crash that killed siblings Honesty Jenkins, 6, and Damarion Jenkins, 11, court records show. In exchange, Alameda County prosecutors dropped drunk driving charges and an additional manslaughter count, and agreed to a four-year prison term.
The original criminal complaint charged Montano Alduenda with not just killing Honesty and Damarion but also injuring the victims’ mother and then-8-year-old brother, who survived the wreck. Police said at the time that Montano Alduenda was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe on State Route 84, west of Old Vallecitos Road, when he served out of his lane into oncoming traffic and struck the Jenkins family’s car head-on.
Montano Alduenda was injured during the crash as well, and when police arrived he was still trapped inside the Chevrolet. His blood alcohol level was measured at .1, which is above the legal definition of drunk, and he also tested positive for methamphetamine, police said at the time.
Damarion was killed outright, but Honesty survived for three months until she, too, succumbed, according to media reports.
Montano Alduenda is set to be sentenced June 3 in Department 705 in the East County Hall of Justice in Dublin, court records show. In the meantime he is being held at Santa Rita Jail, where he continues to rack up time credits that will work towards his sentence.
Nate Gartrell
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