Authorities: Man sought in fatal hit-and-run had been drinking, was here illegally

A 27-year-old Fredonia man on the run from charges in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Sheboygan County had been drinking for several hours prior to the Tuesday crash and is in the country illegally, according to a criminal complaint released Friday.

Eddie Carbajal-Lile, whose last known address is 220 Martin Lane, Apt. 2, is charged with hit and run resulting in death, a felony charge that carries penalties of up to 15 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Authorities say he ran a stop sign in the Town of Lima and hit a car with three teenagers inside, injuring two and killing Paul B. Watry, 17, of Port Washington.

Capt. Dave Adams of the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department said investigators believe Carbajal-Lile — an illegal immigrant — may attempt to flee the country. A warrant for his arrest was issued with the criminal complaint Thursday night.

Carbajal-Lile is alleged to have been the driver of a Nissan Sentra that ran a stop sign about 8:40 p.m. Tuesday while eastbound on county Highway V at state Highway 32. He struck a 1995 Chevrolet Cavalier driven by Scot Mueller, 18, of Port Washington, Adams said.

Mueller and passenger Jillian Fitzmaurice, 18, of Oostburg, were hospitalized after the crash but have since been released. Watry was declared dead at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, with the cause of death listed as closed head trauma, the complaint said.

Witnesses said Carbajal-Lile walked away from the crash after retrieving his cell phone, and the complaint said he called a friend twice saying he had hit something and didn't feel good. Adams has said blood was found in Carbajal-Lile's car.

That friend told police that he had been drinking with Carbajal-Lile and several other friends from 5:30 p.m. to sometime after 8 p.m. that night at Kim's Five Corners Tavern & Eatery, N3701 Highway I, a little more than two miles from the crash site.

Detectives tracked down the friend through a credit card receipt after an anonymous caller reported five Hispanic males had been drinking at Kim's tavern around the time of the crash.

Adams said Carbajal-Lile — whose aliases include Eddie Carbajal, Eddie Lile, Eddie Carbajal-Farvies, Negro Carbajal, Negro Carbajal-Lile and Negro Lile — now may be living in the Sheboygan area, though an anonymous tipster told investigators he may be trying to flee to Mexico.

The complaint said Carbajal-Lile moved out of the Fredonia home, which belongs to his brother, two or three weeks ago due to a dispute between the two. He was an employee of Van Wyks Inc. in Waldo but did not show up for work Wednesday.

Anyone with information on Carbajal-Lile's whereabouts is asked to contact local law enforcement or the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department at (920) 459-3112 or the toll-free CrimeStoppers line at (877) 283-8436.

The developing situation has numerous parallels to a fatal hit-and-run crash from 2003, in which the suspect is still at large and believed to be living in Mexico.

Juan B. Arenas, now 30, struck 12-year-old Benjamin J. Salm, of 1829 Elm Ave., as he and another boy crossed South Business Drive near Union Avenue about 5 p.m. Jan. 6. The boy died of his injuries the following day.

Three friends and family members posted a $20,000 cash bond for Arenas on Jan. 28 — the day after Judge Timothy Van Akkeren lowered it from $50,000 — and he did not show up for his next court appearance a month later.

Not to make light of this, but shouldn’t Ebay stop selling cars on line, since some of them must get driven by drunks, and by now people have died in and been killed by cars sold on Ebay? Where is Ebay’s humanity, and lacking that, where is their consistency? ...Sorry, was just thinking about idiocy, idiots and brain rot, idiot illegals and dead Americans.

What can we do about it? Here’s my standard post.

RICO —Citizen Recourse

Private persons and entities may initiate civil suits to obtain injunctions and treble damages against enterprises that conspire to or actually violate federal alien smuggling, harboring, or document fraud statutes, under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO). The pattern of racketeering activity is defined as commission of two or more of the listed crimes. A RICO enterprise can be any individual legal entity, or a group of individuals who are not a legal entity but are associated in fact, and can include nonprofit associations.

Here’s what I’ve been pushing: it’s time to file Racketeering, Influencing, and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuits.

RICO lawyers could turn it around in a few years and MAKE MONEY at the same time. I’m surprised they haven’t done it already.

In the absence of enforcement, we can get the word out in the meantime that there is money to be made in filing RICO lawsuits against employers who hire illegal aliens like this jerk.

Employers would have no trouble shutting down the border if they could get sued by someone under the RICO statutes for hiring these people in the first place. The next time an illegal alien kills someone in a drunk driving accident or somesuch thing, I’m going to point out that the victim’s family might be able to seek compensation from the employer under these statutes in the hopes that it would catch on. If this did catch on, would see such a swift backlash against illegal immigration that no employer would go near these people and they’ll all simply want to go back home.

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