An El Monte man who was on parole was ordered Friday to stand trial for allegedly leading police on a pursuit that ended with a crash that left an Alhambra police officer and one of the defendant’s own passengers dead.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Adam Y. Chang rejected a motion by Deputy Public Defender Elizabeth Lashley-Haynes, who contended that there was insufficient evidence against Steven Ara Zapata, now 28.
Deputy District Attorney Eric Siddall countered that Zapata turned the vehicle’s lights off in an effort to evade police and ignored stop signs before driving through a red light…