Ontario man pleads not guilty in drunken driving death

RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- An Ontario man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed a San Dimas woman in a drunken driving crash last year and fled the scene.

Jeffrey Gilbert Gonzales, 24, came to West Valley Superior Court out of custody Thursday for an arraignment, but was taken into custody at the end of the hearing after a judge set his bail at $450,000.

Prosecutors have charged Gonzales with four felonies for the Aug. 16, 2009 crash that killed Alyssa Nicole Randles, 22.

Gonzales allegedly made a left turn in his pickup truck into the path of Randles' Volkswagen at Euclid and Schaefer avenues in Ontario.

Gonzales pleaded not guilty Thursday to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, hit and run resulting in death, and two drunken driving charges.

He remains jailed at Adelanto Detention Center, according to booking records, and he is next due in court March 10, court records show.