The deteriorated driver causes a fatal clash one day after DUI arrest, Hillsborough agents say

The same day he was released from jail after a DUI arrest last month, a man from the Trinity stood behind the wheel while he was under the influence of drugs and caused an accident in Hillsborough that He killed a woman and seriously injured her three childrenThe deputies said.

Nicholas Ryan Betancourt, 33, was driving his minivan of Chrysler Pacifica North in Gunn Highway near Dolce Vita Lane in Odessa around 3:40 pm on February 28 when he slid down the central line and crashed into a Lincoln Town car that was headed towards the south, according to a judicial document.

The agents arrived and found the driver of Lincoln, Dana Maria Rivera, 36, trapped inside, according to a motion presented by prosecutors this week to keep Betancourt in jail while her case is pending.

Betancourt was also caught in his truck. A deputy said Betancourt was “in the assent”, with his head falling and his fallen eyes, according to the movement.

Betancourt was taken to St. Joseph hospital in Tampa, where an urine sample showed cocaine, amphetamines, oxycodone and benzodiazepines in its system, according to the movement.

The researchers registered the truck, and inside a suitcase in the back seat, they found a box containing methamphetamine, cocaine, oxycodone, Xanax, a muscle relaxant and MDMA, also known as ecstasy, the movement of movement. The box also contained three straws, two blades and a broken piece of glass pipe with methamphetamine residue.

According to the motion, the children were treated by injuries that included a broken leg, a renal laceration and an orbital bone fracture, among other wounds.

Children are 4, 6 and 15 years old, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office, which announced the arrest of Betancourt in a press release on Friday.

The records show that Betancourt was reserved remotely while he was still at St. Joseph hospital for charges that include Homicide in DUI, vehicular homicide, DUI, which resulted in serious body lesions, driving without a valid license that results in death and several positions of possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The list of Hillsborough Reserve records of Betancourt Hillsborough as “Minister” and his employer as an unidentified presbyterian church. No other information about your job was immediately available on Friday.

The statement indicates that the Hillsborough accident occurred on the same day that Betancourt was released from the Pinellas County prison after a DUI arrest.

According to judicial documents, a deputy of Pinellas who responded to a report from an imprudent driver arrested Betancourt in the Pacifica truck near the intersection of East Lake Road and Ruen Drive on February 27.

Betancourt struggled to keep his eyes open and maintain balance and performed badly in field sobriety exercises, according to records. He gave a sample of breath that did not show alcohol in his system, but refused to provide a sample of urine. The deputy arrested him under suspicion of driving under the influence of a controlled substance, chemical or both.

Because he refused to provide an urine sample, the deputy “took the defendant’s license and informed him that his license was suspended for a year,” according to Hillsborough’s preventive detention motion.

The records show that Betancourt registered a bail of $ 500 and was released from the Pinellas prison around 9 am on February 28, approximately 6½ hours before the fatal accident in Gunn Highway.

Mother of four children, Rivera was a native of New Jersey who worked two jobs, one in “Hospitality” in Steinbrenner High School in Lutz and the other in a Deli de Publix, according to Your obituary.

“She laughed and cried with you, it was very likely that she put on her foot, and was very hardworking,” says the obituary. “She was busy all the time taking her children to school, some programs after school, and maintained a home for her family.”

Funeral services were scheduled for this week.