{"id":60928,"date":"2025-11-17T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60928"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:47:33","slug":"zenaido-martinez-gomez-was-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2025\/11\/zenaido-martinez-gomez-was-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenaido Martinez-Gomez was sentenced to 15 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download-1-819x1024.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60929\" style=\"width:579px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download-1-819x1024.avif 819w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download-1-240x300.avif 240w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download-1-768x960.avif 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download-1.avif 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Zenaido Martinez-Gomez was sentenced to 15 years in prison,<br>followed by 5 years of probation, for Leaving the Scene of a Crash Involving Death. He was convicted in<br>September, following a jury trial in Lee County.<br>The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution for the funeral expenses of the victim and complete<br>120 hours of community service. His driver\u2019s license was also revoked for 5 years.<br>Assistant State Attorney Mara Marzano, of the Traffic Homicide Unit, prosecuted the case.<br>The Florida Highway Patrol arrested the defendant in July 2023. The defendant had been driving his<br>Jeep Gladiator in Lehigh Acres. He hit a man on a bicycle near the intersection of Douglas Lane and<br>Ichabod Avenue and then hit a mailbox. Instead of stopping and rendering aid to the victim, the<br>defendant fled the scene. The victim died from his injuries.<br>The defendant\u2019s vehicle was located at his home in Lehigh, and he was arrested soon after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zenaido Martinez-Gomez was sentenced to 15 years in prison,followed by 5 years of probation, for Leaving the Scene of a Crash Involving Death. He was convicted inSeptember, following a jury&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[3204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60930,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60928\/revisions\/60930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}