A 23-year-old Austin man who was charged with murder after a fatal wreck Monday had been convicted in three drunken driving cases and had gotten his license back just over a month ago, according to his arrest affidavit and court documents. Jaime Bonilla Alvarado, who also goes by Donnie Noel Bonilla, was charged with first-degree…
Austin police have filed murder charges against a 23-year-old man in connection with a fatal collision Monday at Airport Boulevard and Bohn Road. Jaime Bonilla Alvarado could face up to life in prison if convicted on the first-degree felony charges. Robert Joel Benn, 64, who had come to Austin from Tennessee on business, died after…
Robert Benn, who had just flown into Austin after the birth of his third grandchild, was heading from the airport to his hotel about 10 p.m. Monday when police said he neared Airport Boulevard and Bolm Road in East Austin. Just then, investigators said, a motorist in a Lincoln Navigator suspected of drunken driving began…
Police are looking for the driver of a pickup that crashed Sunday morning in the 6100 block of Reicher Drive in Northeast Austin, leaving a passenger dead. About 6 a.m. Sunday, the driver lost control of a teal Chevrolet pickup, and if flipped over, police said. The driver fled and has not been identified. Police…
A woman was taken to University Medical Center Brackenrisge hospital by STARFlight Saturday afternoon after she was badly burned on her face during a vehicle crash on Texas 71 West. The three-vehicle collision took place about 12:30 p.m. near the intersection with Preserve Way. Nine people were involved in the collision. Four others besides the…
A man convicted of intoxication manslaughter has been sentenced to prison for a wreck that killed a Johnson County woman. Brandon Burchfield, 19, got a 10-year sentence in the 2008 death of Nogaelda Zavala. Burchfield had a blood-alchohol level more than twice the legal limit when the wreck occured.
A tractor-trailer slammed into backed-up traffic on Interstate 35 near the Texas-Oklahoma border on Monday, killing three people. The wreck occured on a section of I-35 where two lanes narrow to one because of work being done on a bridge, about two miles southwest of Gainesville and about thirteen miles south of the border with…
A man living at Fort Hood died Sunday evening in a Burnet Count wreck involving three motorcycles, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Albresie Latrell Williams, 20, died in th wreck on FM 963 about a mile and a half north of U.S. 183, according to police reports. Williams was driving a motorcycle…
Several people, including a 4-year-old boy, were injured during a boat collision on Lake Austin at dusk Saturday, according to emergency officials. The boy was taken to the hospitale with a head injury. The collision occured just before 8 p.m. when one recreational boat ran into the back of another near the Watersedge neighborhood and…
