BOSTON, May 12, 2015—An East Boston man was arraigned this morning for allegedly driving drunk and causing a crash that left his passenger with serious injuries, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

HURAN DELIISMAIL (D.O.B. 12/19/92) was arraigned in Roxbury Municipal Court on charges of operating under the influence of alcohol and operating under the influence of alcohol causing serious bodily injury and civil citations charging speeding and three counts of failure to stop.

Assistant District Attorney Gretchen Sherwood of the DA’s Major Felony Bureau requested that bail for Deliismail be set in the amount of $25,000 and that he be ordered to surrender his passport and remain alcohol-free in the event he is released on bail.  Judge Kenneth Fiandaca imposed $3,000 bail and ordered Deliismail to surrender his passport prior to his release on bail and to refrain from driving while his case is pending.

State troopers responded to the intersection of the Riverway and Brookline Avenue at approximately 2:10 a.m. and located Deliismail’s Volkswagen Passat with its front right side crashed against a pole.  Emergency responders extricated a 27-year-old woman from the front passenger seat with injuries that were potentially life-threatening.  The woman was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is now expected to survive.  Deliismail declined medical attention, and two rear seat passengers were transported to Brigham and Women’s Hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

The driver of a second vehicle involved in the crash was uninjured.

Witnesses told troopers that they observed Deliismail’s vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed on Brookline Avenue and run two red lights before he drove through a third red light at the intersection of Brookline Avenue and Riverway, prosecutors said.  His vehicle narrowly missed one vehicle and then came into contact the front end of a 2011 Hyundai Elantra that was traveling on the Riverway; the Volkswagen then struck a pole at an estimated speed of up to 30 miles per hour, prosecutors said.

Sherwood told the court that Deliismail showed signs of impairment at the scene and took a Breathalyzer test on a portable machine, resulting in a reading of .078.  He allegedly made statements to troopers that he had four two beers at a Brookline home followed by two more alcoholic beverages at an Allston bar in the hour prior to the crash.

The crash remains under investigation by State Police detectives and Suffolk prosecutors.

Margo Cramer is the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate.  Deliismail is represented by Aida Fitzgerald.  He returns to court June 4.

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All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.