Hit-and-run kills three, including 3-year-old; ICE holds driver
Posted by: Random-American in Crime, Illegal Immigration/Border SecurityThis is an absolutely horrible story that never needed to happen, and is yet another example of the debacle of border, immigration, and judicial policies…compliments of our nation’s fearless politicos. (hat tip:MM)
From Denver Post:
As new questions arose about the man police say is responsible for the tragedy, several hundred friends and relatives gathered Saturday night outside an ice cream shop to mourn three lives suddenly lost.
“It hurts now,” said Vito Kudlis, surrounded by friends as he and his wife, Enely, wept for their 3-year-old son, Marten. “It is freaky. It is crazy.”
Marten, Patricia Guntharp, 49, of Centennial and Debra Serecky, 51, of Aurora all died when a Thursday night collision caused vehicles to careen into the Baskin-Robbins…
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Francis Hernandez, the man being held for suspicion of vehicular homicide in the deaths, is now being detained by federal immigration officials.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials sent a faxed detainer on Hernandez, 23, at 12:04 a.m. Saturday, indicating his U.S. citizenship is under question, according to Arapahoe County jail officials and federal authorities.
Hernandez has been arrested 16 times in five years in Colorado but apparently has never been deported, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records.
On Friday, Aurora authorities had indicated they believed he was a U.S. citizen.
Hernandez had been arrested in Denver as recently as July 18 on a traffic stop and charged with numerous crimes, including resisting police, CBI records say. Had he been held on an ICE detainer at that time, he would have been jailed until his case was completed and his sentence served and then deported, a time-consuming process.
Hernandez is now being held on the ICE detainer and for investigation of three counts of vehicular homicide, reckless driving and hit and run in Thursday night’s accident, Aurora police spokesman Lt. John Sopranuk said.
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Dating back to 2003, Hernandez has been arrested for mostly misdemeanor offenses 16 times by police officers…
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His charges have included forgery, assault, theft, fraud and driving under restraint.
Sopranuk said Friday that Hernandez was born in California and is a U.S. citizen.
But he added that detectives could find no indication that he had ever held a driver’s license in California or Colorado.
Also according to CBI records, Hernandez, who has 11 aliases and two listed birth dates, has four listed birth places, including Mexico.
ICE placed a detainer because of indications he was born outside the country…
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There were multiple warrants for his arrest when the fatal accident happened Thursday…
Whether through his previous arrests, his multiple warrants for his arrest, or his immigration status, this piece of human debris should have never been free out on our nation’s streets. Had he not been, three innocent people, including a 3-year-old child, would still be alive.
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September 10th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
His butt should have gotten tossed after the first offense and they found out he was here illegally. People like that have given the rest of us who are here legally or trying to get citizenship a bad name. Most people group us all ( I WAS BORN HERE and MY PARENTS CAME HERE LEGALLY) in the same category.
Its what is pushed in their faces everyday. I hope this guy rotts, the poor families of those people. Just think, he has a place to live, three meals a day, medical attention and an education if he wants it in prison.. isn’t that a better deal then some of our senior citizens get?