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Charges filed in EC crash The alleged driver in an FM 1162 fatality crash last weekend is now facing criminal charges in the case. Ismael Escobar-Sanchez, 19, 703 Tennie, Wharton, was booked into Wharton County Jail at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday on a charge of intoxicated manslaughter and held on $300,000 bond. The Texas Department of Public Safety investigated the one-vehicle accident on FM 1162 early Feb. 16 about 1.9 miles south of El Campo. Jose Augustine Torres Terrazas, 20, a Mexican national, may have been ejected when the vehicle crashed. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Wharton County Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Cynthia Kubicek at 5:55 a.m. Saturday. |
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