Crime & Safety

Couple Linked to Fatal Apartment Explosion Scheduled to Enter Plea

Evan Aviles and his girlfriend, Lexie Hutson, are scheduled to appeared in Pleasanton court Thursday.

A Livermore couple linked to an apartment explosion last year is scheduled to enter a plea Thursday at the Pleasanton court house, according to records.

Evan Aviles, 22, and his girlfriend, Lexie Hutson, 23, were .

Police said the illegal drug activity — reported May 21, 2011 — at Aviles' residence on Silver Oaks Way led to an apartment explosion, which critically injured Aviles, Hutson and .

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Lom, 35, succumbed to his wounds five days later.

Hutson and Aviles are being held in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin with no bail.

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The two are scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. in Department 701 of the Gale-Schenone Hall of Justice in Pleasanton.


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