KFOR News 4 reporter Mecca Thompson delivered one of those updates that lands like a gut punch, because it takes a case everyone assumed was settled – an eight-year prison sentence for a drunk driving crash that nearly killed a young woman – and flips it into something the victim’s family says feels unrecognizable.
Thompson reported that Sara Polston, a Norman mother who admitted to driving drunk in a crash that nearly took Micaela Borrego’s life, is scheduled to be released today after serving roughly 70 days of that eight-year sentence.
The Borrego family told News 4 they only learned about this sudden turn last week, and the timing matters because it helps explain the shock in their voices: they weren’t slowly adjusting to a parole hearing down the road, they were blindsided by a release date that’s basically here…