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Turnpike crash kills Honduran diplomat (She is Nuria Ortiz Navarro, age 31)
Pittsburg Tribune-Review ^ | Friday, February 9, 2007 | Paul Pierce

Posted on 02/10/2007 2:26:26 PM PST by rawhide

An illegal immigrant from Ghana was driving a tractor-trailer that rear-ended a car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County on Thursday, killing a Honduran diplomat.

Trade specialist Nuria Ortiz Navarro, 31, a passenger in the back seat of a 1996 Volkswagen Jetta driven by her brother-in-law, was pronounced dead at the scene by Deputy Coroner F. Christopher O'Leath, according to state police in New Stanton...

The truck driver, Sam P. Thompson, 32, of Gaithersburg, Md., an employee of Transcare Systems Inc., of Bowie, Md., was arraigned on multiple criminal charges, including homicide by vehicle, following vehicles too closely, driving at an unsafe speed, careless driving, speeding and reckless driving.

...The Honduran embassy in Washington confirmed that Ortiz Navarro was a commercial attache working in the U.S. to promote the economic interests of her country.

Ortiz Navarro was the daughter of Mayra Navarro, a well-known television journalist in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; diplomat; ghana; honderan; honduras; illegals; immigrantlist; samthompson; thompson; turnpike
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Very sad:

Nuria Ortiz Navarro

1 posted on 02/10/2007 2:26:29 PM PST by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Cosmic related.


2 posted on 02/10/2007 2:28:01 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: rawhide

Where's the "Illegals Kill" pinglist?


3 posted on 02/10/2007 2:28:22 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: rawhide

What a loss - she was a babe ....


4 posted on 02/10/2007 2:30:45 PM PST by Ken522
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To: rawhide

"An illegal immigrant from Ghana was driving a tractor-trailer that rear-ended a car"

Sam P. Thompson, of Gaithersburg, MD? The same person? What are they doing to the trucking company that hired him?


5 posted on 02/10/2007 2:30:52 PM PST by Froufrou
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To: rawhide
An illegal immigrant from Ghana was driving a tractor-trailer...The truck driver, Sam P. Thompson...

From Ghana?

How did he get a CDL, even with that white-bread name?

6 posted on 02/10/2007 2:32:55 PM PST by OldSmaj (Death to islam. I am now and will always be, a sworn enemy of all things muslim.)
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To: rawhide
From the middle of the artcle--

State police Trooper Richard Mahokey said Thompson is an illegal immigrant from Ghana who had been facing deportation. Mahokey said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked yesterday that Thompson be detained by police.

Sounds like we knew this illegal was here (another catch and release?) but were unable to get rid of him before he ended up killing a very lovely young woman.

7 posted on 02/10/2007 2:34:13 PM PST by Tarheel (If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere... Rudy--2008)
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To: OldSmaj
How did he get a CDL, even with that white-bread name?

Probably bought it from the fine employees at the Illinois DMV.

8 posted on 02/10/2007 2:34:26 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: rawhide

Have they run out of Americans to kill?


9 posted on 02/10/2007 2:35:08 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters
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To: rawhide; gubamyster

BTTT


10 posted on 02/10/2007 2:36:58 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: rawhide
Buel Young, spokesman for the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration, said that based on a state Attorney General's opinion issued a few years ago, transportation officials don't ask whether a person applying for a license is in the United States legally.

Well, there you go. There is no state in the country where you have show more paperwork and go through more crap to get your driver's license. But you don't have to be in the country legally. Maryland is disgraceful sometimes.
11 posted on 02/10/2007 2:37:10 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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12 posted on 02/10/2007 2:37:48 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: rawhide

Irony.


13 posted on 02/10/2007 2:44:57 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: advance_copy
Maryland is disgraceful sometimes

"Sometimes", what an understatement. Wasn't it Maryland where the illegal, who was a known drunk, killed a marine home on leave and the only reason he wasn't in jail was because some cop was to sorry to file the correct paper work???

14 posted on 02/10/2007 3:06:58 PM PST by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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Oh , forgot,

Transcare Systems Inc., of Bowie, Md., You better have every I doted and T crossed for the DOT are on their way.

15 posted on 02/10/2007 3:09:36 PM PST by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: rawhide

Attractive young lady. May she rest in peace.


16 posted on 02/10/2007 3:09:53 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Sword_Svalbardt

It's an illegal from Ghana, who killed a diplomat who was here legally from Honduras.

What an ignorant statement.


18 posted on 02/10/2007 3:34:59 PM PST by The Coopster
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To: The Coopster

Your opinion - keep it. Sehr schlecht - too bad.


19 posted on 02/10/2007 4:03:49 PM PST by Sword_Svalbardt (Sword Svalbardt)
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To: Sword_Svalbardt

Not an opinion - it's a fact.

One's an illegal from a non-Hispanic country, one's not here illegally - and thusly not "one of their own".

It's an ignorant statement, and an obvious one at that. Not you necessarily - though your retort leaves that yet TBD.


20 posted on 02/10/2007 4:21:51 PM PST by The Coopster
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