LIHUE — A San Diego man was sentenced to a year in jail with probation and a driver’s license revocation for a 2012 alcohol-related crash that seriously injured a Lihue man. Trevor John Yukio Ikaika Boro, 26, will serve the
LIHUE — A San Diego man was sentenced to a year in jail with probation and a driver’s license revocation for a 2012 alcohol-related crash that seriously injured a Lihue man.
Trevor John Yukio Ikaika Boro, 26, will serve the maximum one year in jail that is allowable for a term of felony probation on the charge of first-degree negligent injury. He received a $1,000 fine and had his driver’s license revoked for five years for a charge of driving while under the influence of an intoxicant.
Judge Kathleen Watanabe told Boro she could not understand why he continues to drink after it has resulted in two criminal cases, and one that caused serious bodily injury to another person.
“You should consider yourself fortunate that the prosecutor agreed to this plea agreement and that the court is not sentencing you to the open five-year term,” Watanabe said.
Boro’s motion for a deferred acceptance of the no-contest plea was denied “emphatically,” Watanabe said. It would have cleared the charges with a successful completion of probation.
State Deputy Public Defender Stephanie Sato said Boro has taken responsibility and has worked hard while the case was held up to complete his bachelor’s degree in education.
Sato asked the court to consider probation with a suspended jail sentence. The defendant’s criminal record is clean, without even a traffic ticket before or since these two alcohol-related driving events within months of each other.
The dream of this honorably discharged veteran of returning to the military to serve as a commissioned officer is shattered, Sato said. Boro is young with a lot of potential and wants only to pick up the pieces to make something with his life. Boro was 24 when he was convicted of driving while intoxicated in California in April of 2012. The court was considering a deferred sentence when Boro incurred the second offense on Kauai just three months later.
County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Melinda Mendes said the defendant was intoxicated around 5:30 a.m. on July 12, 2012. He was driving on Kapule Highway and crossed the center line, clipping a vehicle, and then colliding with a car driven by Peter Sarsona.
Boro suffered a knee injury, but responders thought he had a head injury before they realized it was the effects of alcohol, Mendes said.
A 5th circuit grand jury indicted Boro in October. He was charged with second-degree assault, first-degree negligent injury, reckless driving, operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant and driving without a license.
