PLEA BARGAIN IN KEVIN GARLAND’S DEATH

Travis May, 22, has been sentenced to six years in state prison after accepting a plea bargain of guilty of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. (File Photo)

By Michael P. Neufeld

San Bernardino, CA – Judge R. Glenn Yabuno has sentenced 22-year-old Travis May to six years in state prison after he accepted a plea bargain of being guilty of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. His Ford-250 pickup struck a Jeep driven by Kevin Garland of Twin Peaks. Garland, 48, died at the scene of the crash on Highway 18.

Kevin Garland

May, 22, had been charged with three felonies related to death of Garland — co-founder of the Mountain Fifes & Drums — on May 4, 2011, according to court documents.

The two additional felonies — driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs causing bodily injury and driving under the influence with blood alcohol  level of .08 or more causing bodily injury — were dismissed at sentencing.

THE SENTENCING

Judge Yabuno not only sentenced May to the mid-term sentence of six years but ordered the Department of Motor Vehicles to revoke May’s driver’s license.

May was given credit for time served of 622 actual days plus 622 days for good conduct for a total of 1,244 days. May requested consideration for Fire Camp and was remanded to the custody of the Sheriff’s Department for transfer to the California Department of Corrections at Chino.

The court also ordered several restitution payments — $70 to the Department of Corrections for criminal assessment and court operations, $505 through Central Collections for the costs of conducting the pre-sentence investigation and preparing the sentencing report,  a fine of $1,680 to be collected by the Department of Corrections and a $1,680 fine that will be stayed pending successful completion of parole.

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