“How can you do this, be a repeat offender, kill somebody and serve 2½ years of a nine-year sentence?” Kellie Montalvo said. Advertisement“Quite frankly, we don’t give a darn about her good merit credits,” Montalvo said. Gavin Newsom cannot overturn Velado’s early release, his office can look into whether the credits were calculated correctly. SB 907 also aims to close a loophole for repeat DUI offenders. “Our son was killed by a repeat DUI offender that the system failed to stop,” his mother, Jennifer Levi, said in a statement on SB 907.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 12, 2026 16:32 UTC