DWI Hit Parade!

Illegal Alien will get to stay in U. S. for a long time…

Roberto Salamanca
From Arizona Sun
Roberto Salamanca, a 20-year-old undocumented immigrant raised in Flagstaff, was found guilty of manslaughter Tuesday in the drunk driving collision that killed 20-year-old Kyle Wible last summer.
Prosecutors had charged the defendant with the more serious crime of second-degree murder. The verdict, which carries a presumptive sentence of at least five fewer years than second-degree murder, brought immediate tears to Wible’s family and supporters.
Sentencing is set for Sept. 20. After serving his sentence, Salamanca likely will be deported.
Salamanca was drunk and driving without a valid license at 80 mph last August when he attempted to pass two cars on East Route 66 near downtown and lost control. Salamanca’s GMC Yukon collided head-on with Wible’s Nissan Sentra, crushing the smaller car in front of a local mortuary.
Wible was the oldest of 11 brothers and sisters and his father is a retired Coconino County Sheriff’s Office deputy.
“At the heart of this case is a great loss suffered by the Wible family, but also by the community,” Deputy Coconino County Attorney Jonathan Mosher ….MORE

From Daily Caller
Family members of a Chicago man killed in 2011 by a drunk driver are steaming mad at city officials for failing to bring the driver’s illegal immigration status to the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when they first learned about it, four years ago.
A 2008 police report shows local authorities learned Saul Chavez was an illegal immigrant following an unrelated arrest that year, but did nothing about it.
On June 8, 2011, Chavez was driving drunk in the Logan Square Neighborhood of Chicago when his car hit and killed long-time insurance agent Denny McCann, 66.
Chavez’s blood-alcohol content was 0.29 percent, more than three times the legal limit.
Witnesses said that on impact McCann cracked the windshield of Chavez’s 2002 Dodge Neon and then tumbled forward. But the driver tried to flee, running him over and dragging him 200 feet with the car. McCann died that night.   …..MORE

From Boston Globe
MILFORD – Nicolas Guaman, accused of dragging a motorcyclist for a quarter of a mile after a collision, showed not a flicker of emotion when police told him the motorcyclist was dead, a document filed in court yesterday showed.
He simply shrugged, police said.
Guaman appeared yesterday in Milford District Court, where he pleaded not guilty to eight charges, including vehicular homicide while under the influence, failure to stop for police, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and reckless conduct ….MORE

From WAVE
ELIZABETHTOWN, KY (July 27, 2011) – The father accused of crashing his SUV while drunk on I-65, killing his two year old daughter was in court Monday.
Arturo Martinez Rodriguez, 22, listened to the charges against him through an interpreter. WAVE 3 has learned that Rodriguez is in the U.S. illegally and he’s being investigated by federal agents.
Rodriguez is charged with murder, DUI, driving without a license, failing to maintain insurance, and failing use a child safety seat. On Friday, police say Martinez lost control of his SUV near the Glendale exit on Interstate 65, crossed the median and flipped.
His two-year-old daughter, Sidolena Martinez was thrown from the vehicle and killed. The little girl’s mother, Silena Smith was also in the SUV and has been treated and released from the hospital. ….MORE

From  WUSA 9 News:
FAIRFAX STATION, Va. – “This is wrong.   I was enraged,” says a friend of  54-year-old Paul Krause who was killed Monday night on Route 1 near Ft. Belvoir.   
Krause was hit head-on after being pushed into on-coming traffic by a drunk driver who then ran from the scene with his own 3-year-old child. Thirty-three-year-old Carlos Sanchez-Ramos is charged with child endangerment, hit and run, aggravated involuntary manslaughter and driving while intoxicated.
“When that guy decided to take the keys after he had already taken a sip, to walk in that car, he’s already chose to take someone’s life.  And he took the wrong person’s life,” said  Quyen Phan Le. 
Phan Le  is a Tai Kwon Do coach on the  National Olympics team, on which Krause’s three daughters are members.  Christina Krause, 23, and Cheryl Krause, 20, attend George Mason University.  Shaina Krause is in high school.   They and their mother were too distraught to speak about the tragedy.
Phan Le has coached the girls for many years. He was overtaken by emotion as he talked about Paul Krause.  He says the retired Army Colonel, and engineer at SAIC, was like a father to him.   ….MORE