Richard David Lavalle, a 64-year-old Long Beach man, who killed Noel Bascon, a 12-year-old boy in a DUI collision in Costa Mesa a was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 5, to 30 years to life in prison.
Lavalle was convicted of second-degree murder by an Orange County Superior Court jury earlier this year for the Dec. 6, 2020, fatal collision, which happened at Junipero and Arlington Drives.
Lavalle got a higher sentence because of his lengthy criminal history, which includes a federal bank robbery conviction in 2009 and a robbery conviction in 2018. Lavalle was also convicted of a previous DUI in San Diego County Superior Court. At that time he was warned that if his next DUI killed someone, he could end up being charged with murder.,…