A man who took the lives of two teenagers in a horrific DUI crash is about to walk free after serving just a fraction of his sentence. Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, a Mexican national convicted for the 2021 deaths of Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin, is set for release in July 2025, barely three and a half years into a 10-year sentence. The news has left families grieving, officials sparring, and a community asking: Where’s the justice?
According to multiple reports, it was just before midnight on November 13, 2021, when Ortega-Anguiano, a convicted felon who was in the country illegally, intoxicated and speeding at nearly 100 mph, plowed his Volkswagen into a Honda on the 405 Freeway near Seal Beach Boulevard. Inside the second vehicle were 19-year-old college students Varfolomeev and Osokin. The impact was catastrophic–their car erupted in flames, and both teens perished. For their families, the loss is a wound that never heals.
Anatoly Varfolomeev, Anya’s father, still recalls local police waking him at 3 a.m. to inform him his daughter knock from police, asking for dental records to identify his daughter’s remains. “It was just like a horror movie from Hollywood,” he told the OC Register . “Three years for killing two kids! It’s confusing to me.”…