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  • Man charged in crash that killed 21-year-old woman is on ICE's most wanted list

    03/30/2016 6:23:47 PM PDT · by Mean Daddy · 9 replies
    Omaha World Herald ^ | March 30,2016 | Joseph Morton
    WASHINGTON — Eswin Mejia is officially on the federal immigration agency’s most-wanted list. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has added the 19-year-old Honduran citizen to its gallery of accused sex offenders, drug traffickers and other criminals. Police and prosecutors say Mejia caused a Jan. 31 wreck in Omaha that killed 21-year-old Sarah Root, who had graduated from Bellevue University a day earlier. He was arrested but disappeared after being released on bail a few days later. Federal officials had declined Omaha police requests to detain him. The latest ICE update to its most-wanted list notes that Mejia is wanted on suspicion...
  • Systemic failures allowed man accused in motor vehicle homicide to vanish

    02/20/2016 7:02:02 AM PST · by Mean Daddy · 15 replies
    Omaha World Herald ^ | February 20,2016 | By Todd Cooper 
and Bob Glissmann
    Sarah Root is dead. Eswin Mejia is missing. And authorities are scrambling to answer how the 19-year-old accused drunken driver went missing just days after his arrest in Root’s death. A World-Herald review of Mejia’s case shows a systemic failure — from county pretrial release staff to the county judge to federal immigration enforcement officials — to ensure that the man charged with felony motor-vehicle homicide in Root’s death would answer in court to the charge. “He’s gone,” a law enforcement official told The World-Herald. He’s gone because of a lack of communication and common sense among governmental agencies, Douglas...