CROWN POINT | Lake County prosecutors hit the teen driver in a deadly Gary car crash with 10 criminal charges, including two counts of reckless homicide and two counts of felony operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

The prosecutor also is asking that Darius Moore, 17, of Gary, be waived from juvenile to adult court, spokeswoman Diane Poulton said.

If convicted, the teenager faces a maximum sentence of 16 years in prison.

In the early-morning hours of Sept. 15, the car Moore was driving careened off Chase Street in Gary, smashing through a guardrail and ejecting passengers Brandon Smith and Dominique Green, both 18. Smith's father found the bodies of his son and Green hours after the crash.

Smith and Green, both of Gary, died instantly, the Lake County coroner ruled.

The victims' families chastised police, saying officers ignored survivors' pleas to search for the young men. The Smiths ordered an independent autopsy on their son, and the Green family filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against police and the city of Gary.

A recently completed internal investigation by the Gary Police Department cleared Gary officers of wrongdoing in the crash response.

The charges against Moore counter the initial reaction Gary Police Chief Thomas Houston had to the wreck.

When reports surfaced in the days immediately following the crash that Moore might have received a citation for the accident, Houston said: "I can guarantee you it won't go to court."

Police have said Moore and another survivor, DeAndre Anderson, 17, had blood-alcohol concentrations of 0.05 and 0.09, but authorities have declined to say who had which level.

In Indiana, drivers with concentrations of 0.08 or higher are legally intoxicated.