Drunk-driving defendant sentenced to 50 years for crash that killed 3

Two years after a drunk-driving crash killed the Felipek family, defendant Amber Perera learned her fate.

Hillsborough Judge Christopher Sabella took the bench as a packed courtroom hung on his every word. He reminded Perera of a jailhouse comment she made about her life being ruined. “Yes ma’am, your life is ruined. But you also ruined a lot of lives and ended three lives.”

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