A Lanham woman who drove drunk and triggered a violent chain-reaction crash on the Capital Beltway that killed a 30-year-old passenger will serve three years in prison.
Maria Luisa Alvarez, 20, was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court after pleading guilty to negligent manslaughter by motor vehicle in the early-morning crash on I-495 last summer.
The deadly collision happened at about 3 a.m. on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, along the inner loop of I-495 at Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring…