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20-Year-Old Gets CYA Term in Hit-Run Death

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A 20-year-old Pacoima man has been sentenced to four years in the California Youth Authority for killing a 4-year-old boy in a hit-and-run accident in June.

Van Nuys Superior Court Commissioner Alan B. Haber, who by law could have imposed a sentence of two, four or six years in state prison, chose the middle term Monday for Michael Anthony Barragan, who pleaded guilty Aug. 1 to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

Barragan was riding a motorcycle at 60 or 70 m.p.h. on Montague Street in Pacoima when he struck and killed Caesar Lombero, who stepped into the street after purchasing ice cream from a vendor, witnesses told police. Barragan fled and was arrested after an anonymous tip was given to investigators, police said.

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