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Driver accused in crash that killed director pleads not guilty (Illegal Immigrant)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crash7apr07,0,7158364.story?coll=la-home-local ^

Posted on 04/06/2007 4:38:06 PM PDT by kcvl

Velazquez-Nava, 24, had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit when the crash occurred early Wednesday on Pacific Coast Highway, police said. He is a native of Mexico who federal authorities said was in the U.S. illegally.

The crash killed Clark, the director of "A Christmas Story" and the "Porky's" movies, and his son Ariel, 22.

Velazquez-Nava suffered minor injuries in the accident.

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KEYWORDS: achristmasstory; bobclark; builditnow; fence; illegals; invasion; invasionusa; porkys; wall
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To: pbmaltzman

Carlos Prieto: Suspected illegal alien from Mexico was held in the Salt Lake County jail after running a red light and broadsiding a family of six, killing three, on Christmas Eve 2006. The charging documents say his blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit. The Ceran family, active in local theater and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were returning home after attending a performance of Dicken’s “The Christmas Carol,” which featured several family members, when their car was struck by a truck driven by Carlos Prieto. The crash killed Cheryl Ceran, 47, and two of her children, 15-year-old Ian and 7-year-old Julinna. Cheryl Ceran’s husband, Gary Ceran, 45, and their 19-year-old daughter, Clarissa, and 12-year-old son, Caleb, were injured.

Eduardo Raul Morales-Soriano: When this illegal alien, working as a landscaper in Maryland, killed Marine Cpl. Brian Mathews, 21, and his date, Jennifer Bower, 24, on Thanksgiving night, 2006, it wasn’t his first accident where alcohol was apparently involved. Nine months before, he was issued four citations and sent home with a friend after a single-car accident when he refused a Breathalyzer test. A policeman’s error resulted in Morales-Soriano – who took advantage of North Carolina’s easy rules to obtain his driver’s license in 2004 – getting his license returned. On the night he killed the young couple, police say his blood alcohol level was measured at .32 – four times the legal level in Maryland for intoxication. Mathews had served 8 months in Iraq and completed another tour of duty in the Pacific.

Jorge Humberto Hernandez-Soto: Police say was driving more than 100 mph on the wrong side of Interstate 485 when he collided head-on with the car of 18-year-old Min Soon Chang, a freshman from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, killing him. According to authorities, the illegal alien had already been sent back to Mexico 17 times and convicted of impaired driving at least a couple of times before the November 2005 crash.

Jose Trejo Encino: The 27-year-old illegal alien from Mexico admitted to deputies, at the scene of the November 2006 single car accident that killed one of his passengers and injured another, “to drinking a 12-pack of beer earlier in the night,” but not before first trying to throw the cans of beer he still had in his car into the woods before police arrived.

Luis Oscar Garcia: Police said Garcia had a strong odor of alcohol on his person and that his pants were soaked with a liquid that indicated the presence of alcohol when he ran a red light and killed 18-year-old James F. Rogers Jr. of North Jackson, Tenn., in August 2006. The 24-year-old Mexican had been living in the U.S. without a green card for three years.

Marcos Ramos Medina: The 35-year-old Mexican had twice been deported when, on Aug. 4, 2005, his car swerved several times across the center line, causing a tractor-trailer rig to jackknife in Yakima, Wash. His car then plowed head-on into the 2000 Lexus driven by Peggy Keller, 53, dean of distance education at Yakima Valley Community College, killing her at the scene. Medina, who was found to have at least eight aliases and falsely identified himself at his first court appearance, escaped serious injury. The case against the Mexican national was declared a mistrial in August 2006 because his constitutional right to remain silent had been violated. It took a second jury only 30 minutes to find Medina guilty three months later.

Miguel Garduno Gonzalez: The 43-year-old was accused of causing an accident near Lakeland, Fla., on Aug. 2, 2006, that left Haines City police officer Phoenix Braithwaite, 24, dead. Gonzalez was driving a van that while passing two trucks on U.S. 17-92 in Osceola County near the Polk County line hit the officer, who was on his way to work. Braithwaite, who was riding his motorcycle, was hit head-on and died at the scene. Gonzalez, an illegal immigrant, was not hurt and fled the scene. Two passengers in the van also were not hurt also are illegal immigrants. Gonzalez was being held without bail and the two others were held as material witnesses.

Pastor Rios Sanchez: Despite having pleaded guilty to driving without a license in 2005, and similar counts in March and April of 2006, Sanchez was still on the road on Oct. 27, 2006, when he crossed the yellow line near Sanford, N.C., and collided head-on with a stationwagon carrying Helen Meghan Hughes, 22, of Summerville, S.C., Jennifer Carter, 18, of Jacksonville, N.C., and Hughes’ stepbrother, 16-year-old Ben Leonard. All three were killed. The 55-year-old illegal alien was allegedly drunk and carrying a forged residency card.

Ramiro Gallegos: In July 2005, Gallegos had already been charged on three separate occasions with drunk driving. His fourth offence caused the death of Scott Gardiner of Mount Holly, N.C., a father of two young children, when the Mexican citizen’s truck struck Gardner’s station wagon as he drove his family to the coast for vacation.

Vitalina Bautista Vargas: Neighbors of Louella Winton said the van driven by Vargas, an illegal alien from Mexico, never slowed down before plowing through Winton’s home, knocking the 91-year-old woman, who had been asleep in bed, against the wall of the house next door and leaving her under the vehicle outside the house. Winton died of complications from her injuries.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55078


21 posted on 04/06/2007 5:07:47 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: neodad

Hey, wasn’t the USS Vincennes stationed at Norfolk? I seem to recall a tour of the ship while I was stationed there for school. Maybe not.


22 posted on 04/06/2007 5:08:16 PM PDT by rbosque
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To: TOneocon

In this case the drunk had his seatbelt on on Clark didn’t from what I have heard. A lesson for all.


23 posted on 04/06/2007 5:09:11 PM PDT by Condor 63
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To: Condor 63

The difference is one is here ILLEGALLY and DRUNK and the other two weren’t, whether with seat belts or not.


24 posted on 04/06/2007 5:10:55 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: rbosque

As far as I know, always west coast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vincennes_(CG-49)


25 posted on 04/06/2007 5:12:48 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: neodad

Thanks.


26 posted on 04/06/2007 5:15:05 PM PDT by rbosque
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To: kcvl
I understand that and was not even responding to the difference. I was responding to the question TOneocon asked.

I've been watching this case right from the very start so I'm fully aware of his illegal status and even speculated on it before it became public:

Director of 'A Christmas Story,' son killed in PCH crash


27 posted on 04/06/2007 5:16:21 PM PDT by Condor 63
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To: oyez
Privileged characters. When will law enforcement, prosecuting attorneys, immigration services and others involved start doing their jobs?

Some of us were dumb enough to think jorge bush was going to protect our boarders. Now we'll just be glad when he's out of office.

28 posted on 04/06/2007 5:23:07 PM PDT by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: diverteach

“Both them boys about had a full meltdown”
Already made up. Ratings time?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813349/posts


29 posted on 04/06/2007 5:35:56 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: org.whodat
I don’t anybody will. The whole illegal immigration thing has been written off.
30 posted on 04/06/2007 9:02:57 PM PDT by oyez
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To: oyez

Driving a 2007 Yukon too...no insurance, no problem.

Gil Cedillo would approve, one of his and Dane’s homeboyz.


31 posted on 04/07/2007 10:19:12 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: kcvl
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(The information was current as of: 04/07/2007 22:16)

Booking No.: 9745086       Last Name: VELAZQUEZNAVA       First Name: HECTOR       Middle Name: MANUEL

Sex: M       Race: H       Date Of Birth: 10/09/1982       Age: 24       Hair: BLK       Eyes: BRO       Height: 503       Weight: 165

Charge Level: F   (Felony)


ARREST
Arrest Date: 04/04/2007       Arrest Time: 0410       Arrest Agency: 4227       Agency Description: LAPD-WEST TRAF DIVISION

Date Booked: 04/04/2007       Time Booked: 1638       Booking Location: 4279       Location Description: LAPD - VALLEY JAIL (VAN NUYS)      


BAIL
Total Bail Amount: 100,000.00       Total Hold Bail Amount: 0.00       Grand Total: 100,000.00      


HOUSING LOCATION
Housing Location: IRC

Permanent Housing Assigned Date: 04/07/2007       Assigned Time: 0146       Visitor Status: N

Facility: INMATE RECEPTION CENTER
Address: 450 BAUCHET STREET       City: LOS ANGELES


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32 posted on 04/07/2007 10:22:58 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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