Man charged in brutal intoxication manslaughter case sentenced to 15 years in prison, officials say

WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — A man who was found passed out in his vehicle with the body of a hit-and-run victim in the front seat was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week, officials said.

In December 2023, 31-year-old Nestor Joel Lujan Flores of Arlington was arrested after the White Settlement Police Department responded to a Jack in the Box parking lot in the 8700 block of West Freeway near I-30 on a welfare check call. They were responding to reports of a driver slumped over the steering wheel of a Kia Forte with “extensive front-end, hood and windshield damage.”

Officers arrived the scene to find a human body in the passenger seat next to a passed-out Lujan Flores, WFAA previously reported. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by WFAA, the officer saw the body lying upside down in the seat, with its head laying on the floorboard and both legs missing below the knees…

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