Man pleas in vehicular manslaughter case Gene Patrick Washburn, 57, of Ocean Beach will be sentenced Monday, Feb. 1 after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in connection with a Dec. 20 accident during which his passenger was killed. A memorial service for John Carl Bauld, 47, was held Jan. 17 at Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach. Bauld lived in the downtown area. Washburn was driving on Interstate 8 in East County at 3:45 p.m. that Sunday, later telling officials he may have fallen asleep. His car went off the side of the road and rolled several times before it hit a rock embankment. Washburn suffered a broken leg. Bauld was pronounced dead at the scene. Through his attorney, Washburn has agreed to accept a two-year state prison term, according to El Cajon Superior Court records. The maximum sentence could have been four years and a $20,000 fine. Court records show Washburn was convicted of misdemeanor drunken driving in 2000 in San Diego Superior Court. Washburn remains free on $100,000 bond on the condition he abstain from alcohol. He pleaded guilty Dec. 30, just 10 days after the accident. \u2014 Neal Putna<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Man pleas in vehicular manslaughter case Gene Patrick Washburn, 57, of Ocean Beach will be sentenced Monday, Feb. 1 after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in connection with a Dec. 20 accident during which his passenger was killed. A memorial service for John Carl Bauld, 47, was held Jan. 17 at Sunset Cliffs […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Friday update","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11593,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-no-images","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}