Lotfullah Sohaib Latif, a 34-year-old lawyer and Irvine resident, was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 9 to one year in jail and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service for a DUI crash that killed a United States Postal Service driver in Garden Grove.
Latif was convicted on October 21, 2025 of one felony count of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, one felony count of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, one felony count of driving under the influence with a blood alcohol content of .08% or more causing injury, and three felony enhancements of inflicting great bodily injury. He faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in state prison.
On June 9, 2019, at 3:55 a.m. California Highway Patrol dispatch received multiple calls about a gray Honda Accord that was blacked out in the lanes on the 22 freeway. A few minutes later, dispatchers received calls about a semi-truck colliding into the Honda and the semi-truck bursting into flames near the 405 freeway and the 22-freeway eastbound near Valley View Avenue. The driver of the semi-truck, 58-year-old Carlos Alberto Lara, was pronounced deceased on scene…