Identity of van driver determined in fatal bus crash (MN illegal)

Star Tribune ^ | 2/2508 | Curt Brown

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

U.S. immigration officials say today they've determined the identity of the 24-year-old woman who drove a van into a school bus, killing four children last week in southwestern Minnesota.

The driver has been identified as Olga Marina Franco and she's from Guatemala, according to Gail Montenegro, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chicago.

Franco has been charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide stemming from the Feb. 19 crash near Cottonwood. Witnesses say she blew through a stop sign, jumped over some railroad tracks and hit the rear of the bus, which tipped over and collided with a pickup truck.

The woman initially said her name was Alianiss Nunez Morales, but ICE officials said she was using a fake name and was here illegally.

Immigration agents first interviewed Franco on Feb. 21. During that interview, she said she was from Mexico. Investigators ran her fingerprints through databases and found no matches, hinting that she had no prior contact with immigration officials.

ICE has placed a detainer on Franco, so that if she is released from the Lyon County jail in Marshall for any reason, she will be turned over to federal authorities and placed in deportation proceedings.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Guatamala..........

[martin_fierro]

The woman initially said her name was Alianiss Nunez Morales

DEPORT BOTH OF 'EM!

[mplsconservative]

Finally the “remorseful” witch gives up her name, or did her fingerprints do her in?

[WOBBLY BOB]

thanks for the update...at least we still get cheap lettuce in exchange for the dead kids. (sarc)

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

PING......

[gunservative]

Whoever employed her should be fined heavily.... excessively.

[Uri’el-2012]

Over 4000 Americans murdered on the highway since 9/11 by Illegal Aliens.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Whoa ! Not Minneota ?

[mewzilla]

Investigators ran her fingerprints through databases and found no matches, hinting that she had no prior contact with immigration officials.

Local LEOs had her in 2006 on a traffic beef.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

They’re not 100% sure on that one. It appears that this alias may well be in use by MANY illegals......

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

;-)

[Sicon]

Waiting in line at the local Dunkin' Donuts this morning, I noted that all of the Mexican landscapers were buying the Star Ledger (the main rag in NJ). This was unusual, as I see the same people in there every day, and I had never seen them buying the paper before. Then I looked at the headline, and it was suddenly quite clear why:

"Jersey Cracking Down On Immigration Violations"

[AD from SpringBay]

Both the school and the company who hired the driver should be held accountable.

[ApplegateRanch]

DEPORT BOTH OF 'EM!

Prosecute & sentence each of them to consecutive terms on each count. THEn deport. ;')

I kept looking at that "Alianiss" name, and trying not to pronounce it "Alias" or 'Alien". Should have been a tip-off. "Alien Miss"? Could be, since she's no 'hit' with me!

[Just mythoughts]

Care to take back your accusations?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Don’t wreck my thread......

[mewzilla]

Well, they may share the same name, but they can’t share the same fingerprints. Did they print the perp in 2006?

[subterfuge]

Death penalty for her.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Still waiting on that evidence. I would think that they did when she was booked in....But who knows, at this point?