By City News Service
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Paramount man who was behind the wheel of a BMW
that crashed into two men standing in front of a parked car outside a Los Angeles strip club, causing them to lose limbs, pleaded no contest today to a drunken driving charge.
Terrence Conrad Meeks, 40, is facing five years and four months in state prison when he is sentenced July 17 by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Bork, according to Deputy District Attorney Nick Swertlow.
Meeks drove into the two men, who were pinned against a parked Mini-Cooper, after leaving a strip club at Olympic Boulevard and McGarry Street early March 10, according to police.
One of the men had both legs severed below the knee, and the second man had to have his right leg amputated after it was crushed, authorities said shortly after the crash.
"I haven't been able to sleep at night since it happened,'' one of the victims, Sal Wilson, said in March. "I wake up in sweat. I see his face. I see the car coming at me. I remember having my leg in my hand.''
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