Posted on 04/02/2007 5:28:51 PM PDT by csvset
VIRGINIA BEACH – A man accused of killing two high school students Friday night in a car crash has a substantial record of alcohol-related convictions in both Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.
Alfredo Ramos, charged with manslaughter in the Friday deaths of Allison Kunhardt, 17, and Tessa Tranchant, 16, was convicted this year of DUI in Chesapeake and of public intoxication at the Beach.
Ramos, who admitted in court Monday that he is in the country illegally, also was convicted in Chesapeake last year of public drunkenness.
Two 2007 Chesapeake convictions – a seat belt violation and identify theft – appear not to be alcohol-related.
Additional Chesapeake charges – driving without a license and having no insurance – were withdrawn earlier this year.
On Monday morning, Ramos, 22, was arraigned on the manslaughter charges in Virginia Beach Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court .
His 25-year-old brother, who lives in Norfolk, also is here illegally and asked not to be identified because of his immigration status. He said he had talked to his brother by phone Friday before the accident and, after learning he had been drinking, warned Ramos not to drive. Afterward, his brother told him he had no memory of the crash. He learned from authorities that he had killed two people, his brother said.
Ramos, who was born in Mexico of Guatemalan parents, has been in the U.S. for about seven years
Most recently, Ramos was employed as a waiter at Mi Casita, a popular Mexican restaurant on Bonney Road in Virginia Beach.
Police said speed and alcohol were factors in Friday’s accident, which occurred at Kings Grant and Virginia Beach Boulevard.
Police spokesman Jimmy Barnes said a 1998 two-door Mitsubishi, driven by Ramos, was westbound on Virginia Beach Boulevard when it crashed into the rear of a 1994 Plymouth driven by Kunhardt.
The Plymouth was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection, Barnes said.
Kunhardt and Tranchant were pinned in the wreckage and had to be cut free before paramedics could tend to them.
One of the girls died at the scene; the other was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at a hospital, Barnes said. Both had been wearing seat belts, he said.
Ramos also was wearing a seat belt and suffered only minor injuries, Barnes said.
On Monday, friends and family of the two victims were planning a vigil for tonight at Mount Trashmore.
Scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., the candlelight ceremony will be held on the Independence Boulevard side of the park. Classmates, family and friends have been invited to attend.
Janice Lane, a minister and Kunhardt’s aunt, will lead a short service.
Kunhardt was a junior at First Colonial High School. Tranchant, her close friend, was a freshman at Kellam High School.
First Colonial Principal Dale Holt said the school has canceled plans to host the “Every 15 Minutes” program on Wednesday and Thursday. The program raises awareness of drunk driving by removing a student from class every 15 minutes as if they had been killed.
“Our kids are living 'Every 15 Minutes’ as we speak,” Holt said Monday.
At Kellm High School, programs on drunk driving already planned for April and May will go on as scheduled, administrators said.
Ramos is scheduled to appear this morning in front of Juvenile and Domestic Relations Judge Deborah Rawls for a bond hearing.
Ramos faces deportation if he’s convicted, according to U.S. immigration laws. People who are deported for criminal convictions have either committed felonies or “crimes of moral turpitude,” including crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and most theft crimes, U.S. immigration law states.
Staff writers Duane Bourne and Lauren Roth contributed to this report.
Bet he posts bond and disappears.
Want to know why the illegals pour across the border and nothing is done?
This from a Wash. Times article posted 3/29
In 2004, “uncredited earnings” — Social Security tax payments that can’t be matched to valid Social Security numbers — totaled $65 billion — about 10 percent of the program’s total income. The amount of uncredited earnings stood at $301.8 billion in 1999, but had grown to $585 billion by 2004, according to the Senior Citizens League report. ..
Uncredited contributions to Social Security grew by nearly $300 billion from 2000 to 2004, a giant increase attributable mostly to illegal aliens using erroneous Social Security numbers,......
I don’t see it happening anytime soon.
First it was bilingual signs in stores- now almost all labeling is bilingual.
My prayers for your friend’s recovery.
It’[s hard, but thanks for putting a personal spin on this.
Will the ACLU defend him ?
youre right... im on cape cod, sunday lost an old customer who”just hired the brazil on the corner last fall”, today a jamaican called me up for a job,unsolicited, for him and his undisclosed number of jamaican friends. i asked if they were here legally, he just laughed. lost another customer last week to a single female customer who is harboring an illegal alien landscaper in her house, he’s her “live in” lover. where does it stop? they commit tons of crime here as well. thanks for hiring legal AMERICANS!
My patience has passed the breaking point!
My future votes will go ONLY to candidates who support the wall and kick out any illegals who break even the minor offenses!
First it was “Press 1 for English”........
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
I totally agree with you.
The guy that owns the chicken houses diagonally across from me is an absolute fanatic when it comes to illegals. He is known for firing long time employees who try to get by with hiring day laborers without documentation of their eligibilty to work. My best friend’s husband works for the guy, I know what I’m talking about.
20 years ago a pickup ran a stop sign and I broadsided him. When the Houston cops made the scene they did their analysis and walked over to me and said “He’s headed to Mexico, and has no insurance, would you like to borrow my gun”
$ 30,000.00 damage to my Baby Benz and he got to drive away.
I should have borrowed it and USED it. Send these wetbacks to prison. Our laws already allow it. Enforce the laws on the books already or go to Crawford Tx and protest GWB.
(I am sorry, I voted for him yet his amnesty crap and guest worker/criminal crap turns me off)
Cheap & immoral labor has always been our country’s Achilles heal, especially in The South. Starting way back during our founding days with the slave trade (of-course, the North shamefully had slaves for a while to.) & now with the illegal alien invasion. It’s always been the greedy dirtballs who import these people with no regard to how it affects their community.
“$ 30,000.00 damage to my Baby Benz and he got to drive away.”
I had an illegal rear end my new Porsche at a stop sign. He pulled out his lic. His name was Vicencio Villavincencio. Yeah, right.
He stared at the tip of his shoes, and said,” No blakes, no surance, no money”
I ate it, and the cop let him go. This was 10 years ago.
“It’s always been the greedy dirtballs who import these people with no regard to how it affects their community.”
Correct, but now they get everything in their native language, so there is no incentive to assimulate. And there are so many now that they are getting mean and cocky. Very bad for the future!
Good homepage. Welcome to Free Republic.
My husband didn’t have a Benz or a Porsche, but he had more than one encounter with an illegal and Houston cops.......generally during ice storms.
So what do they do? They support & bribe sellout politicians in both major parties & accuse Americans who care & support boarder enforcement as extremist, borderbot Bush-bashers.
We have all had bad encounters with illegals. And the govt. doesn’t see a problem.
Heres how it usually starts. At first, the farm or business has native, local hardworking low wage people working on the books. Farm owner & business owners are making a nice profit & supporting their family’s, just fine. Then one day a few illegals stop by & say they will do the same work for a little less & the owner wouldn’t’t have to mess with boring paperwork to send to the gov’t. Next thing you see is local workers being let go & F&B owners asking illegals if they have any friends who want a job & they bring their friends & family’s & start popping out babies & many collect some form of social service. Crime goes up, taxes go up etc. . Mean while the F&B owners got so rich undercutting their own, and got so used to their rich lifestyle, they can’t go back to hiring native locals.
So what do they do? They support & bribe sellout politicians in both major parties & accuse Americans who care & support boarder enforcement as extremist, borderbot Bush-bashers.”
Perfect!
well we’re cooked as a society, and no one to blame but ourselves for it. we let our racial guilt and greed hamstring us when it comes to stopping the invasion.
Well, I have put my time and moey into fighting this for close to 10 years. No doubt you have too. Don’t blame yourself. We didn’t participate in this rape, and we fought against it. The only hope we have is to elect a conservative POTUS. If we don’t I think we are done!
Time &Money that is : )
This one really makes my blood boil. This guy was in the system 7 times in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake. I’m going to make it my mission to drive City Council crazy until they change their policy of dealing with illegals who are involved in ANY criminal activity.
Two beautiful young Americans, full of promise and loved by friends and famly have been killed by a drunk who shouldn't even be in this country. Hell...he should be in jail. He was convicted in January in Chesapeake and given a 90 day sentence...suspended! If he'd been forced to serve his sentence those two girls would still be alive.
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