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Man Sentenced for Fatal Wrong-Way Crash During Iowa Blizzard

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A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for a wreck that killed a northwest Iowa woman last year. A jury found Jorge Ardany Ortega-Ortega, formerly of Cherokee, guilty of homicide by vehicle for an accident that happened during a blizzard. Dash camera footage showed he drifted across the center line of […]

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Man sentenced for fatal wrong-way crash during Iowa blizzard

A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for a wreck that killed a northwest Iowa woman last year. A jury found Jorge Ardany Ortega-Ortega, formerly of Cherokee, guilty of homicide by vehicle for an accident that happened during a blizzard. Dash camera footage showed he drifted across the center line of […]

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Man sentenced to 10 years prison for fatal crash near Aurelia

A Buena Vista County jury in March found Jorge Ortega-Ortega, 29, formerly of Cherokee, Iowa, and now living in Worthington, Minnesota, guilty of one county of vehicular homicide.

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Sioux City Journal broke the news on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.
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