Who is Maria Guadalupe Hill? Drunk driver who murdered friend in 2012 crash arrested AGAIN for DUI

A Seattle lady who crashed her car while intoxicated in 2012, killing the person in the passenger seat, has now been detained for drunk driving once more. This time, Maria Guadalupe Hill was apprehended and charged with DUI after being found less than a mile from the scene of the horrific incident that occurred earlier. Hill was detained on November 15 after being stopped by the Washington State Patrol on I-5, which traverses the length of the US west coast from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. She was apparently driving at 28 mph in a 60 mph zone on the freeway and drifting out of her lane close to the Columbian Way exit in the South Seattle neighborhood. The defendant was placed in arrest after failing field sobriety tests and blowing a.175 on an alcohol-detecting device. The charges against her were finally reduced to one DUI felony offense. Hill has been detained three times for DUI-related offenses. [caption id="attachment_68548" align="aligncenter" width="648"] Wrong-way DUI crash in Seattle, Washington in March 2012. (Image: KOMO News)[/caption] After killing her companion Valerie Cartillar, 33, in a head-on accident with a pickup truck on I-5 in downtown Seattle in 2012, Hill was convicted guilty of vehicular homicide. According to Komo News, Hill and the driver of the pickup vehicle only suffered minor injuries. Cartillar passed away at the spot. According to a police report from 2012, the driver had a.21 blood alcohol content. She admitted to drinking before getting behind the wheel to the Washington State Police. Cartillar rode along on the trip back to Covington. Later on in the year, Hill received a five-year prison term. “Despite this conviction and the tragic loss of life of her passenger, [Hill] is again driving impaired on Interstate 5. She represents a significant risk to community safety,” King County Prosecutor Adam Eucker said in a court affidavit obtained by Komo News Last Monday, a court approved Hill's release, but with conditions that included monitoring her house and prohibiting her from drinking and driving. The suspect's trial for her most recent DUI accusation is set to start in February 2023. Since her initial arrest in 2003, Hill has faced DUI accusations. Regarding Hill's 2012 DUI charges, Eucker stated, "[Hill] is unable or unwilling to control her alcohol use and is a grave danger to the community, having traded one addiction for another.".