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LAS CRUCES - The alleged drunk driver who drove head-on into a married couple's vehicle the night of Dec. 4 has been formally charged by a Doña Ana County grand jury.
Nancy Corina Moreno, 30, remains in jail with a $25,000 cash-only bond.
Trial has not yet been scheduled in 3rd Judicial District Court, where she will face two counts of causing injury by vehicle and one each of aggravated drunken driving, failure to maintain traffic lane, possession of an open container of alcohol, driving with a suspended license and not wearing seat belts, according to the Dec. 21 indictment.
George and Judith Foster, the principal of Desert Pride Academy in Anthony, N.M., and the principal of University Hills Elementary School in Las Cruces, respectively, were hospitalized after a head-on collision with Moreno, who was allegedly drunk and texting on her phone when she drifted into the Fosters' lane on Stern Drive near Mesquite at 55 miles per hour.
Moreno, of 633 Tumbleweed, in Chaparral, has two prior drunken driving convictions - one, from 2000, in Do-a Ana County, and another from 2005 in Denver, in which she was also convicted of speeding, not restraining her child and driving with a suspended license. Court records show two other arrests on her record: assault causing great bodily injury in 2003 in El Paso (dismissed because a witness could not be located) and simple assault in 2005 in Colorado.
Ashley Meeks can be reached at (575) 541-5462.
