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Man accused in Omaha motor vehicle homicide that earned national attention to be extradited to United States
KETV ^ | March 21, 2025 | McKenzy Parsons

Posted on 03/21/2025 6:23:25 PM PDT by Mean Daddy

OMAHA, Neb. — Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced "justice will finally be served for Sarah Root."

Rubio said on Friday that the Trump administration announced the extradition of Root's alleged killer from Honduras to the U.S.

On Jan. 31, 2016, Root was killed in a crash near 33rd and L streets.

Police believe Eswin Mejia was driving drunk and street racing when he hit Sarah's car at a stoplight.

Mejia, who was in the country illegally, was not put on an immigration hold. He posted $5,000 of his bond and vanished.

(Excerpt) Read more at ketv.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Iowa; US: Nebraska
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Video shows him on the way back to the US. I assume he'll go to trial, serve time and then be deported. I find it interesting that the Honduran authorities were able to find and arrest him a couple weeks after Trump was sworn in for his second term.
1 posted on 03/21/2025 6:23:25 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Mean Daddy

Should be executed.


2 posted on 03/21/2025 6:28:16 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: Mean Daddy

I expect boasberg to order him to be sent back to Honduras.


3 posted on 03/21/2025 6:30:04 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Mean Daddy

He posted $5,000 of his bond and vanished.”””””””””””
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An ILLEGAL kills someone and gets a 5k bail?


4 posted on 03/21/2025 6:32:21 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: butterdezillion

Worse, free wit no bail.


5 posted on 03/21/2025 6:32:30 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Mean Daddy

Yeah, knowing he skipped bail last time to go to Guatemala.


6 posted on 03/21/2025 6:36:47 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Mean Daddy

That piece of human garbage James Boasberg would turn this murdering creep loose, if he was given the case.


7 posted on 03/21/2025 6:37:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: shelterguy

The prosecutor didn’t insist on a high bond & they treated him like he was a citizen. What’s worse, he was underage, drinking at a bar who accidentally deleted their security tapes after the incident became known.

Any crimes involving illegal aliens that occurred in Nebraska, the bails immediately went into the millions. Sen. Grassley’s office said they had never seen a DUI end up on ICE’s Top Ten list but it was because of the political pressure generated by Trump.


8 posted on 03/21/2025 6:39:28 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: shelterguy

Omaha has it’s share of libtards. She was such a beautiful young lady. RIP.


9 posted on 03/21/2025 6:40:07 PM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: Mean Daddy

There is a profound rot in the system. An illegal alien accused of a capital crime is a flight risk and never allowed to post bail.

If she were my sister or something like that, whoever let this guy out would be dead, that’s just all there is to it.


10 posted on 03/21/2025 6:40:17 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: shelterguy

Until Trump was elected, I was thinking of starting a school to teach people how to impersonate an illegal alien, so they too can get those generous tax paid benefits, food, cash, aid, rent, medical services and other assorted gifts and prizes.


11 posted on 03/21/2025 6:43:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Mean Daddy

I hope, after his conviction, he’ll be sent to El Salvador for a stint in Bukele’s Hilton.


12 posted on 03/21/2025 6:43:28 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: KierkegaardMAN

https://d1cen7xsgcmu8f.cloudfront.net/images/2019/8/10/Root_Sarah.jpg


13 posted on 03/21/2025 6:48:12 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: GaltAdonis

That’s not her.


14 posted on 03/21/2025 6:52:26 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: GaltAdonis

https://www.google.com/search?q=sarah+root&rlz=1CAEXLB_enUS1135&oq=sarah+root&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i131i433i512j0i131i433i512j0i512l5.3356j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


15 posted on 03/21/2025 6:52:56 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: shelterguy

Some US judge: “I noticed that $5,000, too. Looks like too high a bail if you ask me.”


16 posted on 03/21/2025 6:56:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Mean Daddy
Oopsie.

Too many pretty girls…

17 posted on 03/21/2025 6:57:17 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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An ILLEGAL kills someone and gets a 5k bail?

It was probably $50,000. You pay a bondsman 10% of the bail, which is nonrefundable. When he jumped bail he owed the bondsman $45,000. It's why bondsman hunt bail jumpers down.

18 posted on 03/21/2025 7:11:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ll rephrase..... Why would an ILLEGAL who KILLED an American be given bail at all?


19 posted on 03/21/2025 7:14:23 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t recall the specifics, but Nebraska doesn’t use bailsmen. I believe its the state. Only certain states use bail bondsman like Colorado, Hawaii etc.


20 posted on 03/21/2025 7:19:27 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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