Houston truck driver previously cleared in death of pregnant Valley Mills teen charged again after new evidence comes to light

WACO, Texas (KWTX) – A Houston man previously cleared in the 2023 traffic death of a pregnant teen in Valley Mills is back in the McLennan County Jail Tuesday after he was named in a sealed indictment last month.

Maikel Alpizar Espinosa, 46, was arrested Monday in Fort Bend County after he was charged with criminal negligent homicide, a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Espinosa is being held without bond in the Sept. 22, 2023, crash in which 19-year-old Emily Rena Turkett, of Valley Mills, was killed…

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