19-Year-Old Gets CYA Term in Road Death
A Sunland man who admitted running a stop sign and killing a motorcyclist was sentenced Friday to two years in California Youth Authority custody.
James Dean Brown, 19, pleaded guilty last month to vehicular manslaughter in the Feb. 9 death of Jeffery Allen Ulveling, 29, of Sunland. Brown left the scene of the accident and arrested when he returned a short time later, Los Angeles police said.
Brown was driving north on Langmuir Avenue in Sunland when he ran the stop sign at Hillrose Street, police said. Ulveling, riding his motorcycle west on Hillrose, crashed into a block wall after being struck. He was pronounced dead at Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Sun Valley.
Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Alan B. Haber sentenced Brown to the youth authority after a probation officer reported that Brown’s “childlike attitude and lack of adult motivation will make him unable to fit into a primarily adult prison situation.”
Brown was driving without a license and had “a history of burglary” as a juvenile, the probation officer’s report said.
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