Dylan Molina Video Shows Overserved Patron Before Fatal Crash

Publish date: 2024-05-22

A Dylan Molina video has been released, showing the moments leading up to a tragic car accident in Lake Worth, Texas, that killed Euless police detective Alex Cervantes and severely injured his widow and two children. 

The video reveals that Dylan Molina, who was responsible for the accident, had consumed eight double vodka cocktails in less than three hours at a Fuzzy’s Taco Shop in Lake Worth. His blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit.

Molina pleaded guilty to intoxication, manslaughter, and three counts of intoxication assault. As part of his plea, he was sentenced to 15 years for intoxication manslaughter and ten years for each intoxication assault charge. 

However, now 26-year-old bartender Cala Richardson has been charged with overserving Molina. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission forbids the sale of alcohol to a drunk person. 

Richardson, who bartended at Fuzzy’s when Molina was there, is charged with one count of sale to certain persons, a class A misdemeanor that can carry up to 1 year in jail and a $4,000 fine. 

No other arrests are expected in this case, but TABC’s administrative investigation is ongoing. Police in Lake Worth obtained a security video from Fuzzy’s while building a case against Molina. 

The video shows Molina coming out of a door behind the bar that investigators report was restricted to employees only. 

He can be seen walking behind the bar when Richardson notices him. She motions for him to come around the bar and get back to his seat. While complying, Molina is seen stumbling onto a stool behind the bar. 

Richardson helps Molina to his feet and returns to the other side of the bar while Richardson disappears through the door behind the bar. Molina then leaves his drink on the bar and walks to his car. Minutes later, he crashes into the Cervantes family.

After leaving the bar, Richardson returns to find Molina gone. 

She peers into the parking lot and then removes his drink from the bar. “He couldn’t stand up, he was behind the bar, he was in places he shouldn’t have been,” Lake Worth Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian said. 

Manoushagian told WFAA that Richardson should have done more after seeing Molina in his condition. “The signs that he displayed should have been an indicator that he was not safe to walk away from that building,” Manoushagian said. “This is a stark reminder of what can happen when we ignore those signs.”

Richardson told police when she was interviewed that she didn’t notice Molina might be drunk until he was behind the bar and stumbling just seconds before he left.

It is clear from the video that the bartender ignored warning signs that should have kept Molina off the road. 

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