A California man who told officers to “just take me in” while being questioned after a car crash in 2023 pleaded guilty to the charges against him and is now headed to prison.
The Tulare County District Attorney’s Office announced in a press release on Thursday that Maxwell Barrios, 28, pleaded guilty in February to felony DUI causing injury, felony DUI with a BAC .08% or more, and felony driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs two years after he crashed his Honda HRV into a car carrying two women. Both women survived, but suffered “massive” injuries, according to the DA.
At the scene of the crash, the DA stated that Barrios drunkenly told officers to “just take me in” after he “pled the fifth.”
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According to the DA, the crash occurred at about 2:20 a.m. on April 2, 2023, in Tulare, California, in California’s Central Valley. Barrios, driving the red HRV, brutally rear-ended a Dodge truck “at a high rate of speed” that flipped the car over with so much momentum that it ended up back on its wheels…