With four drunken-driving convictions already on his record, a St. Paul man was sentenced Thursday to a nearly five-year term after admitting he was intoxicated when he killed a pedestrian in Brooklyn Park. He vowed before grieving family members to never drink and drive again.
Anthony J. Frausto's 58-month sentence calls for him to serve slightly more than three years of that time in prison and the rest on supervised release for killing Gary J. Rumpza, 56, as the victim walked near his home on a well-traveled intersection on Aug. 4.
According to the criminal complaint against Frausto, 37, a preliminary breath test at the scene measured his blood alcohol content at 0.206 percent, more than twice the legal limit for driving in Minnesota.
Frausto was convicted of drunken driving four times in Minnesota between 1999 and 2007, according to court records. In one of those cases, his blood alcohol content was measured at above 0.30 percent.
At sentencing in Hennepin County District Court, Frausto "spoke about the sorrow that he has and feels toward the victim's family," defense attorney Thomas Kelly said. "He accepted the responsibility for their loss."
The sentence given to Frausto for pleading guilty to criminal vehicular homicide was near the low end of state guidelines, Kelly said, adding that he could have received a nearly seven-year term from Judge Daniel Moreno.
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