A 28-year-old extradited from Ireland to the US to face charges of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault has been found guilty by a Washington State court.
Frederick David Russell faces 10 - 14 years in prison after being found responsible for the death of three students and injuries to three others in a car crash in 2001.
Russell, who had been driving near his home town of Pullman, Washington, was found to have had excess alcohol which was 50 per cent over the statutory maximum and a trace of cannabis.
Prosecutors said he was speeding and trying to overtake in a no-passing zone when his vehicle crashed head-on into another car.
Shortly before his original trail date, Russell fled to Ireland and assumed the name, David Carroll.
He had been working as a security officer at a Dublin city centre shop and living with his girlfriend in Celbridge, Co Kildare when he was detained by Irish authorities in November 2005.
He was extradited the following year after being placed on the US Marshals Service's most wanted list.