Posted on 12/23/2024 11:12:10 PM PST by xxqqzz
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The wrong-way driver who killed an off-duty Las Vegas officer had been deported from the U.S. twice before the crash, according to federal officials.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that Fernando Jimenez-Jimenez, 31, was a Mexican citizen. An ICE spokesperson said Jimenez entered the United States twice in 2019 “and was returned to Mexico on an order of expedited removal.”
The spokesperson also said Jimenez applied for admission to the U.S. on Jan. 24, 2020 in Brownsville, Texas but never appeared for his immigration hearing nearly two years later on Dec. 2, 2021. An immigration ordered him to be deported when he didn’t go to court.
It’s unknown where Jimenez was in the years after that hearing up until the deadly crash.
Jimenez was accused of driving the wrong way on I-15 near Valley of Fire on Dec. 12 and hitting Officer Colton Pulsipher head on. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said Pulsipher was headed home from his shift when the crash happened. Both Jimenez and Pulsipher were pronounced dead at the scene.
Nevada State Police said that Jimenez also had containers of marijuana and alcohol in his car when the crash occurred but that official toxicology reports were still pending.
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Doesn’t every “wrong-way” crash involve a drunk Illegal?
140 MPH relative velocity doesn’t leave much room for survival. I don’t know of any street-legal vehicle that is rated for that.
I only escaped a wrong lane driver this weekend at night by veering into a right turn lane for a subdivision. My first thought was drunken illegal.
Was it Modelo or Corona or both?
While it’s a shame he tool someone with him, good riddance otherwise.
Drunk for sure.
Never heard of one that wasn’t.
But there were a couple in NYS that were not illegals.
Sadly, the person who got hit by the drunk was the one who was killed. As usual, the drunk survived.
Condolences to family and friends of Colton Pulsipher.
I don’t have any statistics,but here in Eastern Washington most of all the accidents, fatal or not, involve at least one person with a Hispanic surname.
“Jimenez-Jimenez“
Really, couldn’t that have been shortened to just one Jimenez?
It cracks me up, that people who don’t have a pot to pee in get all fancy with the hyphenated names.
Is Vegas a Crime Sanctuary city?
A head on collision with both cars going 70 is the same energy as hitting a wall at 70. Still deadly.
We constantly read about illegals not showing up for their court date or having the judge rule against their asylum claims. I have yet to hear about asylum being granted. I wonder if it happens.
EC
I was told that this officer is the father of three young children.
Deport once second time 5 years hard labor third time 15 years hard labor.
Examples must be made
Sorry, but third time gets you dropped from a helicopter at one thousand feet.
What are you talking about?.
That would be to easy more pain in hard labor for 15 years
Illegals kill americans every day on our highways. Been going on for decades but the politicians take their bribes from mexico and do nothing.
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