Posted on 08/17/2007 8:33:28 PM PDT by hercuroc
The man accused of running a stop sign and causing a crash this week that killed a 17-year-old Port Washington boy is an illegal immigrant who was convicted in Wisconsin in December of first-offense drunken driving, authorities confirmed Friday.
A criminal complaint charging Eddie Carbajal-Lile with hit and run resulting in death also indicates that he consumed five or six beers before the crash Tuesday that killed Paul Watry.
Prosecutors would have needed evidence such as a blood test showing he was intoxicated at the time of the crash to charge Carbajal-Lile with homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco said Friday.
Carbajal-Lile is believed to have left the accident scene on foot before sheriff's deputies arrived, and he remained at large Friday.
Hit and run resulting in death is a felony that carries a possible 25-year prison sentence.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Carbajal-Lile, 27. The Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department says he may be en route to Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol has been alerted regarding his status as a fugitive. Carbajal-Lile's last known address is in Fredonia.
He uses a number of aliases, including: Eddie Carbajal; Eddie Lile; Eddie Carbajal-Farvies; Negro Carbajal; Negro Carbajal-Lile; and Negro Lile.
The crash happened about 8:40 p.m. Tuesday at Highway 32 and Highway V in the Town of Lima.
Witnesses told sheriff's deputies that a Nissan Sentra traveling east on Highway V failed to stop at a stop sign and struck a Chevrolet Cavalier traveling south on Highway 32. The Cavalier sustained extensive passenger-side damage, where Watry was seated. Watry died Thursday at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa.
Another passenger in the car in which Watry was riding, Jillian Fitzmaurice, 18, of Oostburg, was treated at Froedtert Hospital and released. The driver, Scot Mueller, 18, of Port Washington, was treated at St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan and released.
Investigators say Carbajal-Lile was driving the Sentra.
According to the criminal complaint, witnesses at the crash scene suggested that Carbajal-Lile lie down and wait for medical help to arrive. He instead retrieved a cell phone from the car he was driving and walked away east on Highway V.
The criminal complaint quotes Gabriel Anzures, who described himself as a friend of Carbajal-Lile's, as saying he had been drinking with Carbajal-Lile at a tavern in the Town of Sheboygan prior to the crash.
Anzures also told investigators that he received two telephone calls from Carbajal-Lile after the crash. In the first call, Anzures said Carbajal-Lile told him that he had hit something with the car he was driving, a 1997 Nissan Sentra.
Online court records indicate that a man using one of Carbajal-Lile's suspected aliases, as well as his date of birth and address, was convicted in January 2004 of having open intoxicants while a passenger in a motor vehicle.
The records also indicate that in August 2004, a man using one of Carbajal-Lile's suspected aliases as well as his date of birth and address was convicted of having open intoxicants while a passenger in a motor vehicle.
People with information about Carbajal-Lile's whereabouts are asked to call their local law enforcement agency.
We started about six months ago making it a local policy that the police don’t do ‘cite and release’ on people whose identity can’t be confirmed. Instead, they’re grabbed, hauled to HQ, and the ICE officer does a fingerprint screen and figures out who they really are. There’s an amazing number of these dudes who turn out to have a warrant from the next town over under a different name.
With a six-pack on the seat next to him along the way.
that’s a good point...if they know they did something wrong under one alias just move on to the next one
“My sister was just talking to a guard from San Quentin (at the store, chit-chatting). The guard said she had had it - and was leaving. She takes care of Scott Peterson and all the violent murderers, but she said the absolute worst/most violent ones are the illegal aliens from south of the border... Nice (not).”
Why are we not surprised?
my daughter saw Paul’s father at the bank today...gave him a hug
gotta be heartbreaking
I’m glad your post was before mine. Yours has a ‘kleenex’ touch to it, as it was in your community. Prayers for all who knew and loved this young man.
I checked but yours was first-you beat me by about a minute and a half!
I’ve just been watching this closely because it is touching the community and kids
thanks for caring
Give your daughter our best wishes.
More dead Americans at the hands of illegal aliens....
Who will be tomorrows victims?
Seems to me the DA is culpable and should serve a little time after losing his job.
Like oh, say, 10 years!
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