SANTA ANA, Calif.—A former addiction care center employee was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison on Dec. 10, for driving under the influence of various drugs when he fatally struck a Costa Mesa firefighter bicycling on a Mission Viejo sidewalk. Stephen Taylor Scarpa, 28, was convicted in September of second-degree murder in the death of fire Capt. Mike Kreza. During the trial, Senior Deputy District Attorney Dan Feldman told jurors Scarpa was “loaded” on various drugs when he left a party in Westminster on Nov. 3, 2018, to drive home. Scarpa wound up striking Kreza, 44, who was bicycling on Alicia Parkway near Via Burgos around 8 a.m. that day. Kreza’s wife, three daughters, and sister made emotional statements to Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick Donahue at sentencing. The fire captain’s eldest daughter, Kaylie, 14, said, “My dad was the nicest, happiest you would ever meet … Everyone thought he was their best friend because he …