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A West Valley City man pleaded guilty Friday in connection with a fatal crash last year near Salt Lake International Airport in which his girlfriend, younger brother and another boy died.

Jonathan Ulises Anal Cruz, 24, entered guilty pleas Friday morning to two counts of second-degree-felony automobile homicide, He pleaded guilty to failure to stop or respond at the command of police, also a second-degree felony.

In exchange for his pleas prosecutors dropped three other charges against him: a third count of second-degree-felony automobile homicide charge, as well as possession of forged writing or device for writing, a third-degree felony, and a class C misdemeanor count of driving on a suspended or revoked operator's license.

Analco-Cruz's sentencing is scheduled for May 1 at 9 a.m. before 3rd District Judge Katherine Bernards-Goodman. The felonies carry a potential prison sentence of 1 to 15 years each.

On May 17, an officer saw a black Volkswagen Passat going 60 mph in a 35-mph zone at the Salt Lake airport. He tried to pull the car over, but the driver accelerated and made abrupt lane changes until merging onto Interstate 80, according to the charges.

The officer stopped pursuing the car because of the reckless driving. But as the officer turned around to return to the airport, he saw a dust cloud in the vicinity of the Interstate 215 ramp. He drove over and found the Passat upside down.

"Crash reconstruction showed the vehicle was traveling 103 mph at the time it started to lose control," the charges read.

Officers found three people, still in their seat belts, dead inside the car.

Analco-Cruz was outside the car, and the paramedics who treated him could smell alcohol on his breath, according to charges.

A toxicology report showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.21 —nearly three times the legal limit of 0.08, as well as THC and THC metabolite in his blood, the charges add.

The Utah Highway Patrol identified the front passenger who died as 18-year-old Michaela Martin, from Taylorsville; she was Cruz's girlfriend. The two backseat passengers were Hardinger Cruz, 17, of Salt Lake City, and 14-year-old Randy Ruiz, of Midvale.

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