• Prison time: Judge Angelina N. Jackson sentenced Luis Valentine, 24, to two years in prison, according to Montgomery County Common Pleas Court records.
• Probation: He’ll also be on probation for up to three years after he’s released from prison.
Valentine’s license was suspended for three years, and he was ordered to pay $1,494.62 in restitution.
What was he convicted of?
• No contest plea: In December, Valentine pleaded no contest to one count of vehicular assault.
A no contest plea does not admit guilt, but accepts the facts alleged in the indictment.
The court accepted the plea and found Valentine guilty.
• Dismissed: One count of street racing, a first-degree misdemeanor, was dismissed.
What was he accused of?
• Street racing: On April 22, Valentine and his co-defendant, Emmanuel Bello Jose Flores, were reportedly racing on Wilmington Pike when Valentine hit a 2025 Tesla Y head-on near Eureka Drive.
The Tesla was trying to turn left onto Farrington Drive at the time of the crash, according to a Kettering police crash report.
Valentine hit a 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee stopped at Farrington Drive and Wilmington Pike. He continued into a parking lot and struck a parked 2009 Honda Odyssey and then a parked 2016 Honda CR-V.
The Honda Odyssey and Honda CR-V were unoccupied.
• Injuries: A dog was in the Tesla and died due to the crash, according to the crash report.
Medics treated the driver of the Tesla, as well as three passengers — a 10-year-old and two 9-year-olds — for minor injuries at the scene.
Valentine and the driver of the Jeep were also evaluated by medics at the scene. No one was taken to the hospital.
• Fleeing the scene: Flores fled the scene in a 2015 Infiniti but returned on foot after parking out of sight, according to the crash report.
What happens next?
• Co-defendant’s case: Flores is facing two counts of vehicular assault and one count each of street racing and failure to stop after an accident, according to court records.
He has a scheduling conference scheduled for Tuesday.
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