A 25-year-old Diamond Bar man pleaded guilty to causing a 2022 wrong-way crash that killed one L.A. County Sheriff’s Department recruit and injured dozens of others while they were on an early morning training run in South Whittier, officials said.
Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez will receive an eight-year suspended sentence and five years of probation after pleading guilty Monday to one count of vehicular manslaughter and nine counts of reckless driving, according to a statement released by the L.A. County district attorney’s office.
The plea bars Gutierrez from driving for five years. If he violates the terms of his probation, he would have to serve his entire prison sentence, prosecutors said…