LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A decide pressed a five-time DUI offender after he known as the crash that killed a veteran an “accident,” main her to say the 23-year-old made a selection that had a lethal consequence.
Las Vegas Metro police arrested Alfredo Jauregui on Oct. 5 on prices of DUI leading to demise. Jauregui, who doesn’t have a driver’s license, killed Airman George Brown, 48, as Brown was within the street on Marion Drive close to Nellis Boulevard and Cheyenne Avenue.
The 8 Information Now Investigators discovered Jauregui’s fifth DUI arrest occurred as prosecutors awaited blood outcomes from a DUI arrest from Could 2024. The delay impaired judges’ skills to limit or jail him, the investigation discovered.
On the time of Jauregui’s arrest for Brown’s demise in October 2024, he had racked up three misdemeanor DUI convictions: one on Jan. 8, 2021; a second on Sept. 4, 2021; and a 3rd on Jan. 1, 2022, data stated.
Clark County District Courtroom Decide Christy Craig sentences Alfredo Jauregui, 23, on Sept. 4, 2025. (KLAS)
In court docket Thursday, Clark County District Courtroom Decide Christy Craig sentenced Jauregui to the phrases of the plea settlement he made with prosecutors. The settlement known as for Jauregui to serve 3-10 years in jail and pay the price of Brown’s funeral.
“I killed somebody on accident,” Jauregui informed Craig earlier than she sentenced him.
“It wasn’t an accident,” Craig stated. “It was because you got into a car after you used drugs and drinking — it’s like playing Russian Roulette but with other people’s lives.”
In Could 2024, a North Las Vegas police officer stopped Jauregui for rushing, paperwork stated. The officer stated Jauregui appeared impaired. That, and an open can of beer in a cup holder, led to his arrest — his fourth DUI-related arrest since 2021, police stated. As a part of the plea settlement within the case involving Brown’s demise, prosecutors didn’t request any extra jail time for the fourth DUI cost.
George Brown’s household holds pictures of him throughout Alfredo Jauregui’s sentencing on Sept. 4, 2025. (KLAS)
On Oct. 5, simply earlier than dawn, Jauregui collided with Brown after which drove off, abandoning a number of items of a household truck.
Officers later discovered the truck in a close-by house advanced. Detectives spoke with the truck’s registered proprietor, Jauregui’s member of the family, who stated Jauregui was not residence, paperwork stated. Jauregui was in actual fact residence and informed officers he believed he hit a buying cart. No member of Jauregui’s household attended Thursday’s sentencing.
“Did something make you drink against your will, or did you drink because you wanted to?” Craig requested Jauregui.
“I drank because I wanted to,” he stated.
“So that’s not an accident, is it?” the decide stated.
Brown’s household held up pictures of him in court docket as Craig sentenced Jauregui to the phrases of the plea settlement.
“Justice is nonexistent here in Las Vegas, unfortunately,” Amaris Davis, Brown’s cousin, stated after sentencing. “Overall, it’s not enough, but we have to take what we can get, unfortunately.”
The 8 Information Now Investigators first uncovered Jauregui’s legal historical past in March. Following Jauregui’s Could 2024 DUI arrest — months earlier than the collision involving Brown — a North Las Vegas Justice Courtroom decide set bail at $10,000, ordering him to put on an alcohol monitoring bracelet and pleading with him to not drive.
On the time of Jauregui’s arrest in October 2024, he racked up three misdemeanor DUI convictions, data stated: One DUI on Jan. 8, 2021; a second on Sept. 4, 2021; and a 3rd on Jan. 1, 2022. (KLAS)
Underneath Nevada regulation, that was so far as the decide might go as a result of prosecutors had but to file their legal grievance. Typically in DUI instances, the legal grievance is not going to be filed till blood take a look at outcomes are confirmed. That course of can take a number of months.
Prosecutors will rush the exams in instances involving demise. Toxicology testing, the place labs take a look at for medicine, can take for much longer. The common turnaround time for Metro police as of early this 12 months was 55 days for normal blood testing and 90 days for toxicology, a spokesperson stated.
North Las Vegas police, the company that arrested Jauregui for that fourth DUI, stated it examined his outcomes a couple of month after his arrest. Nevertheless, the end result was not added to his legal case by the point he returned to court docket months later.
In August 2024, now weeks earlier than the collision involving Brown, prosecutors requested a decide for extra time to file the official paperwork charging Jauregui with DUI — his fourth.
Paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained reveal he admitted to police he consumed cocaine, marijuana and alcohol within the hours earlier than the crash. (KLAS)
On high of his launch, the corporate working the alcohol monitoring program terminated Jauregui as a result of he didn’t pay fines related to it, a court docket spokesperson stated.
DUIs are misdemeanors till an individual receives their third arrest inside seven years. A felony DUI conviction can carry jail time and the requirement a driver has an interlock machine positioned of their car. Jauregui racked up the three instances so rapidly that he didn’t have a second DUI conviction earlier than his third arrest, which means all three remained misdemeanors. Data present in these first three DUI instances, municipal court docket judges ordered Jauregui to attend courses, keep out of hassle and pay a wonderful.
With a number of failures to seem, these judges sentenced Jauregui to 98 days in jail for one case and 82 days in jail for 2 instances mixed, spokespeople for the cities of Henderson and Las Vegas stated.
Nevada’s DUI with demise regulation permits a decide to condemn an individual to anyplace from two to twenty years in jail, although the utmost period of time an individual can serve with out parole eligibility is eight years.
“It impacts everybody, everybody here in the city,” Craig stated. “We all have to worry about it. And frankly, I’m worried about what happens when you get out of custody and whether or not you really understand the choice that you made and have any ability to control that.”
Davis hopes lawmakers hear her cousin’s story, transfer more cash so as to add testing capabilities and alter the legal guidelines. Nevada is one in all two states with no crime lab. With one, advocates consider the testing turnaround time will lower.
“Because of this, there will be more actions taken and a lot of people can come together to actually help fight for the change,” Davis stated.
A proposal from Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo to amend Nevada’s DUI legal guidelines to cost offenders like Jauregui with second-degree homicide failed final legislative session, which resulted in June.
A invoice to double the quantity of jail time a second-time DUI offender should serve grew to become regulation, doubling the quantity of jail time from 10 days to twenty.
With credit score for time served, Jauregui will likely be eligible for parole within the fall of 2027. The 8 Information Now Investigators have discovered the parole board typically approves parole for DUI offenders throughout the starting of their eligibility durations fairly than the top.
