Crime & Safety

Driver Pleads Guilty in 2009 Fatal Crash in Park Ridge

Two of his passengers died.

A Chicago man wasΒ sentenced to six years in prison in a car crash that killed two passengers in Park Ridge and that authorities had said was alcohol-related. Ibrahim Yaro, 38, was charged in October 2009 with aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol in a two-vehicle crash at Oakton Street and Riverside Drive in Park Ridge, records show. Two passengers in Yaro’s car β€”Younan Chalabi, 25, of Des Plaines, and Christine Merza, 37, of Morton Grove β€” died at area hospitals.

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