A Tulalip man suspected of causing a wrong-way crash on Interstate 5 that killed a passenger in another vehicle has six previous drunken-driving convictions and was driving with a suspended license, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Aaron Gentry, 56, was arrested Sunday on investigation of vehicular homicide after the State Patrol said he drove the wrong way on I-5 near Arlington and slammed into another car head-on, killing an Oregon woman.
On Monday, a Snohomish County judge set bail at $500,000 for Gentry, who troopers say had an open container of alcohol in the 1991 Ford Explorer he was driving at the time of the collision, jail and court records show. He is also being held in the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of driving with a suspended license and failing to have an ignition-interlock device on his vehicle.
An ignition interlock analyzes a driver’s breath and prevents a car from being started if alcohol is detected.