Posted on 02/17/2007 4:52:26 PM PST by ruination
An illegal immigrant who led police on a pursuit and was charged in a fatal Rowan County wreck last week had been arrested at least three times in North Carolina. But he was not deported after those arrests, authorities said Thursday.
The man, Carlos Alfonso Guillen Martinez, will be deported as soon as state officials release him, federal authorities said. If convicted, he would likely serve prison time before being deported.
It won't be the first time Guillen Martinez is thrown out of the country after committing a crime, investigators said:
• In 1997, he was deported from Los Angeles, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Richard Rocha said Thursday. The charge: Assault with a deadly weapon, causing great bodily injury.
• In 1998, he was deported from Houston after trying to sneak back into the country, Rocha said.
His three N.C. arrests -- including two in which he was charged with driving while impaired -- have all been since 2002, authorities said. He used fake names after each N.C. arrest, officials said.
Guillen Martinez, 33, of El Salvador, appeared by video in a Rowan County court Thursday morning where he was charged with second-degree murder and driving while impaired. Guillen Martinez was being followed by a Kannapolis officer Feb. 6 when he crashed into a car driven by Leeanna Newman, 20, of Salisbury, killing Newman and her unborn baby.
"I imagine a lot of people are going to ask why we didn't keep him out" of the country, Rocha said. "Now we have programs in place that will stop these kind of criminals."
The Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office received training in 2006 to help them work with federal investigators to identify illegal immigrants in the county jail.
Three of the 10 U.S. law enforcement agencies that have gone through the training are in North Carolina, the most of any state, Rocha said.
ICE agents interviewed Guillen Martinez for the first time Wednesday, hours before they announced he was in the U.S. illegally.
He told the agents he paid a smuggler $1,500 in 2002 to sneak him across the U.S. border in El Paso, Texas, Rocha said.
Later that year, he was committing crimes in North Carolina, Rocha said. Authorities linked the crimes by matching fingerprints, Rocha said.
In November 2002, Guillen Martinez was arrested for driving while impaired in Alamance County, Rocha said. Records there list an arrest for an Inslito Pineda, who was released in early 2003.
Rowan County sheriffs deputies said they believe they held Guillen Martinez in the Rowan County Detention Center in January 2004 and that he gave jailers the same alias, Inslito Pineda. Pineda was charged with driving while license revoked, and was jailed and released.
Deputies said they also believe they held the same man in the county jail under the name David Ortiz in August 2004. Ortiz was arrested on charges of driving while impaired, assault on a law enforcement officer, driving while license revoked, resisting arrest, injury to personal property and giving fictitious information to an officer. Ortiz received a 19- to 23-month prison sentence when he was convicted in 2005, deputies said.
By that time, he had more than 200 days credit for serving time while awaiting his trial, Rocha said. He was released on probation last year.
"This is the third name we know of, and there may be more," Rowan County Sheriff George Wilhelm said.
My Irish a** would have been in jail.
If we, as a country, choose to turn a blind eye to illegal immigration, this is the inevitable result.
Didn't stop this guy, though, did they?
I'm sure Leeanna Newman's husband and family would agree, don't you think?
Just doing the killing and maiming that Americans won't do.
Here's a hint, you yokels: if they give you two last names.
In Hispanic countries (but not so much here), your name is first name + father's surname + mother's surname. Very frequently, the mother's surname is what gets entered as the perp's surname, which is WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Carlos Guillen Martinez would be Carlos Guillen in this country, and I bet dollars to donuts he has multiple prior arrests under the name of Carlos Martinez (his mother's name).
Any arrestee who gives two last names and doesn't speak good English should be presumed an immigrant until proven otherwise, and while it's true he could be a legal immigrant, the onus should be on him to prove it.
-ccm
The body of evidence supporting the concept that "Our Diversity is Our Strength" keeps on mounting.
Well-now they have "programs" and have been through "training".
I was worried there for a minute.
If any one of us did a fraction of what this guy did we would be in prison.
Why is President George Bush doing this to us?
I bet this sob has an account with Bank of America.
huh?
It should be 1 year in jail for each man and woman caught, 5 years the second time and life the third. If an injury involved go straight to number 3.
What good is ICE in this case?
*smacks forehead* Duh! Of course!!!!
Another sickening story about illegals. When, I wonder, is enough going to be enough.
About 15,000,000 ago?
Yeah, I know. It really riles me up.
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