Illegal immigrant gets 20 years for drunk driving death of nun

Published February 3, 2012 5:00am ET



A 24-year-old illegal immigrant was sentenced to 20 years in a drunken-driving crash that killed a nun and injured two others in Prince William County.

Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, of Bolivia, was found guilt in October of felony murder. He pleaded guilty to two counts of maiming resulting from driving while intoxicated, driving on a revoked license, involuntary manslaughter and driving while intoxicated.

He was facing up to 70 years.

Martinelly Montano was charged in the Aug. 1, 2010, crash that left Sister Denise Mosier, 66, dead. Two other Benedictine nuns were seriously injured in the head-on crash, which sparked outcry over the Department of Homeland Security’s deportation proceedings.