JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The man who killed an 18-year-old Creekside High School graduate in a wrong-way crash in May 2023 is going to prison.
After hours of emotional victim impact statements before the court Friday, a judge sentenced Ariel Monteagudo to 12 years in prison, 100 hours of community service, and ordered him to pay more than $25,000 in restitution.
Monteagudo pleaded guilty in November 2024 to killing Trenton Stewart, who was a football player at Stetson University.
Stewart was driving eastbound on Old St. Augustine Road at about 1 a.m. on May 9. 2023. He was driving home for summer break after finishing his first year at Stetson University, his family said.
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Monteagudo, 40, was driving over 100 miles per hour in a 45-mph zone in the wrong direction of traffic, police said. He crashed head-on into Stewart’s vehicle.
The judge will also get a written order to permanently suspend Monteagudo’s driver’s license.
Monteagudo previously spent 10 years in prison, between 2002 and 2012, after being convicted of a separate vehicular homicide in Broward County.
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