Santa Cruz
– Antoinette Soliz saw her bail reduced to $1 million by a Santa
Cruz County Superior Court judge at a hearing Tuesday morning.
Santa Cruz – Antoinette Soliz saw her bail reduced to $1 million by a Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge at a hearing Tuesday morning.
Soliz, a 26-year-old Hollister mother, had been held on $1.75 million bail after being arrested for vehicular manslaughter several days after a late-January crash on Highway 1 that killed her 4-year-old daughter Jasmine Arroyo and injured seven others. She also faces charges of seven felony counts of causing great bodily injury and five felony counts of child abuse.
Wesley Schroeder, Soliz’s attorney, said Judge Samuel Stevens reduced the bail to the $1 million amount he set on a warrant for her second arrest.
Soliz posted $60,000 bail after her original arrest on Jan. 29, the day of the crash. She turned herself in to California Highway Patrol officers within 12 hours of receiving the their surrender call two days later, Schroeder said.
Schroeder said another judge set Soliz’s bail at $1.75 million because authorities suspected she was trying to avoid being arrested a second time.
Soliz was driving a crowded 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe when it slammed into the guardrail 10 miles south of Santa Cruz on Highway 1, rolling numerous times, the CHP reported.
Soliz faces up to 10 years in state prison if convicted of vehicular manslaughter, according to the California Penal Code.
A preliminary hearing, in which a Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge will decide if there is enough evidence to try Soliz, is set for March 19.
From staff reports.
