A Lakewood liquor store worker on probation for selling alcohol to teenagers involved in a fatal crash in 2007 is accused of selling beer to an underage customer working for police in April.
Probation was revoked today for Van Thien Pham, 47, of Westminster.
He could be sentenced to 18 months in jail for each of the seven counts for which he received probation in 2008. He will be sentenced July 19, according to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
Pham has served two years in jail for three other counts stemming from the 2007 case, prosecutors said.
Pham pleaded guilty to selling alcohol to teens at Alameda Square Liquors on March 13, 2007. The group’s sport utility vehicle slammed into a Honda at West Alameda Parkway and West Florida Drive near Green Mountain Park. Bear Creek High School junior Samara Stricklen, 17, was killed in the crash. Seth Mutschler, 20, was injured.
On April 14, Pham sold a 24-ounce bottle of Corona beer to an underage male without asking for identification in a compliance operation by Lakewood police, prosecutors said. The liquor store is owned by Pham’s wife.
Pham’s probation prohibits him from working in a liquor store, prosecutors said.
The driver of the SUV, then-17-year-old Nanette LaFleur, was sentenced in 2008 to four years in a youth detention system. She also received a 12-year suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide while driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol and vehicular assault-DUI.
