Scott Gardner didn’t have to die
(There are 13,000,000 in the United States)
• In 1998, Ramiro Gallegos [a Mexican citizen in the U.S. illegally] was detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Today, the Department of Homeland Security [the old INS] cannot or will not explain why he was released. [We KNOW he was not deported.]
• On Feb. 18, 2002, he was charged in Brunswick County [N.C.] with driving while impaired and speeding 88 mph in a 55 mph zone. Gallegos failed to appear in court in July 2002. Prosecutors later dismissed the case with leave, meaning he could be prosecuted if found.
• A month after the dismissals, on Dec. 21, 2002, he was charged in Duplin County [N.C., about 75 miles from Brunswick County] with DWI and driving while license revoked. He pleaded guilty to both in February 2003. He was fined $250, ordered to pay $20 for a court interpreter and placed on probation for six months.
• On Jan. 4, 2004, Gallegos was charged with DWI, failure to heed blue lights or siren, resisting an officer and having an open container after consumption in Brunswick County. His blood alcohol level was at least 0.16 percent, twice the legal limit.
Three months later he pleaded guilty to the DWI; the other charges were dropped. Gallegos was sentenced to 30 days in jail to be served on weekends, 30 months probation, and alcohol treatment. He was also ordered to pay $1,340.
• This weekend [July 16, 2005] Gallegos was charged with second-degree murder, DWI, and driving while license revoked following a wreck in Brunswick County that killed a Gastonia man [Scott Gardner] and left his wife in critical condition. Gallegos’ blood alcohol level was 0.22 percent.
[...]“…in 10 years on the bench, no officer or prosecutor has ever mentioned a drunken driver’s immigration status. ”
“Nobody has ever told me that any of the Hispanic people that are through here are legal or illegal,” he said. “It just has never been an issue that has been raised or addressed.” — Judge Tom Aldridge (Brunswick Co., N.C.)
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"Scott Gardner didn’t have to die"
November 28th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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