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The man charged with killing a motorcycle driver and injuring three others on Friday went before a judge Monday morning, who raised his bond to $2 million. WRAL Investigates has learned the man has a history of driving while impaired and was operating his tow truck company for 14 months without a valid license.
Prosecutors say Allan Guerrero was drunk when he made a U-turn on red in his tow truck and crashed into a pair of cousins on motorcycles. He is now facing his fourth DWI charge and had a suspended license.
Guerrero already had two DWI convictions before he started his business, 6G Towing and Recovery, in September 2024. Then he was convicted of a third DWI, lost his license and kept driving anyway.
The sound of the crash early on the morning of July 17 had officers headed to respond; the call even came over their radios. They found a mangled scene of a tow truck, car, two motorcycles and six people in varying stages of injury.
One man, Chandler Hodge, died. Family members told WRAL News that it would have been his 35th birthday.
Hodge and his cousin Larry Pulley were riding the motorcycles involved in the crash. Pulley is recovering from serious injuries. WRAL has not learned the status of the other two people injured.
Guerrero has a history of driving while impaired and has been cited for driving without a license at least a half dozen times since 2010, according to court documents. He was arrested three times with a blood alcohol level above North Carolina's .08 impairment limit.
The maximum limit for drivers with a commercial driving license is lower, at a .04 impairment limit. Guerrero is not listed as having a CDL with NCDOT, but the truck he operated doesn't appear to have been heavy enough to require it.
Timeline: DWI arrests and towing companyGuerrero was arrested for DWI in August 2011, which led to a conviction in 2012.
He was arrested again for DWI in October 2016, which led to a conviction in July 2018. He was sentenced to serve six months in jail on that charge, but he was already incarcerated, serving a three-year federal sentence for illegally selling guns in New York. He served the six months for the DWI concurrently with the federal sentence.
He was arrested a third time for DWI in April of 2024.
Just five months later, Guerrero incorporated his towing company in September of 2024.
A conviction on that charge came in May 2025 and included an order that he surrender his driver's license until further notice. There are no court records to show he ever got it back.
On the morning of July 17, 2026, he was behind the wheel of the tow truck and, according to police, was intoxicated and disruptive.
His court records also show that Guerrero was supposed to have an ignition interlock device to prevent him from driving while impaired.
His next scheduled court date is on Aug. 10.
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