A Southern California mother has been arrested and charged after her teenage son allegedly hit and critically injured an 81-year-old Vietnam veteran while riding an e-motorcycle, prosecutors said.
Tommi Jo Mejer, 50, was charged with one felony count of child endangerment and one felony count of accessory after the fact to a crime, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release on April 22. She was also charged with several misdemeanors, including contributing to the delinquency of a minor, loaning a motor vehicle to an unlicensed driver, and providing false information to a peace officer.
Mejer was arrested on April 21 by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, prosecutors said. She faces a maximum sentence of six years and eight months in state prison if she is convicted on all charges.
Prosecutors accused Mejer of continuing to allow her 14-year-old son to illegally ride an e-motorcycle despite receiving repeated warnings of the dangers. In a separate news release, the sheriff's department said deputies responded to a report of a pedestrian who was struck by what was initially believed to be an e-bike on April 16 in Lake Forest, California, an affluent city in Orange County.
