Far-left Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s California is scheduled to release an illegal-alien killer from prison tomorrow after he served just a third of his sentence. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be on hand to charge him with felony re-entry into the United States.
The illegal-alien thug in this case is Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano. In 2021, he killed two kids while driving drunk. But Ortega-Anguiano is also a dangerous career criminal, the record shows.
When Fox News’ Bill Melugin reported in April that Newsom’s prison authorities would release the killer before his sentence ended, Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, wrote on X that his office had filed the new felony charge.
With the release scheduled for tomorrow, Ortega-Anguiano had better lawyer up again. He’s not going anywhere.
Ortega-Anguiano aside, drunk driving among illegals is all too common.
The Killing
Melugin detailed Ortega-Anguiano’s career on X.
The killer, “a twice deported Mexican illegal alien, had a lengthy rap sheet prior to killing 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev & Nikolay Osokin in the DUI crash on the 405 freeway in Seal Beach in November 2021,” Melugin wrote:
Both were US citizens, and they were dating. Ortega-Anguiano had several felony convictions, had gone to state prison, and had multiple convictions for driving without a license, but was still on the streets when he crashed into the teens’ vehicle.
Ortega-Anguiano was drunk, stoned, and hurtling down the street at 100 mph when he smashed into the hapless couple, Melugin reported. In 2022, he was convicted “of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for killing the teens, and a judge sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison for each count, but concurrently, meaning he would serve both 10-year-sentences at the same time.”
On Easter Sunday this year, Melugin continued, the state corrections department told the families it would release him on June 19, just 3.5 years into this 10-year sentence, “leaving the victims’ families shocked, and outraged given the seriousness of the crime and his prior criminal history,” he reported.
Though the families gave Melugin the documents that showed the release date of July 19, the corrections department refused to confirm it. It told him it “cannot provide information on an incarcerated person’s release date or location in advance of their release.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed a detainer on the killer and will arrest him when the prison springs him. “The families fear, even if he is deported, he will just re-enter the US as a gotaway, as he’s done twice before,” Melugin wrote.
Charged Again
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was outraged. “This is absolutely unconscionable,” she wrote on X:
What about Justice for these teens? What about the rights of their parents?
@TheJusticeDept will work with ICE to make sure this illegal alien receives full punishment for his crimes.
That was 9:49 a.m. on April 23. Less than two hours later, Essayli delivered the bad news for Ortega-Anguiano:
My office has filed a felony immigration charge against this defendant. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted for 8 USC 1326.
If the State of California will not seek the full measure of justice against this individual, the @TheJusticeDept will.
The law in this case punishes re-entering the country after being deported. It says that an illegal “whose removal was subsequent to a conviction for commission of an aggravated felony, such alien shall be fined under such title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”
Border czar Tom Homan vowed that ICE agents would be at the prison to arrest Ortega-Anguiano.
Unlicensed Illegals
Cases like Ortega-Anguiano’s are not unusual. Indeed they are quite common, as are those involving illegals who drive without a license.
On Monday, Venezuelan illegal Endrina Bracho pleaded guilty to first-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault in the killing of 11-year-old Travis Wolfe. She was driving without a license when she hurtled 1,700 feet — a third of a mile — down a 40-mph street on the wrong side at 75 mph and struck the Wolfe family’s vehicle.
In May, a 15-year-old illegal alien was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and school attendance in the killing of Kaitlyn Weaver in Aurora, Colorado. He was traveling more than 90 mph in his mother’s jeep with other kids when he smashed into Weaver’s car. Speed limit: 45 mph. Though the little thug was unidentified due to his age, he might well have been a Venezuelan. Venezuelans flooded the city thanks to the Biden administration. The Tren de Aragua terror gang established a major base of operations there.
Drunk Driving
Seven months ago, prosecutors in Houston, Texas, charged drunk-driving Venezuelan illegal Joel Gonzalez Chacin with killing of 7-year-old Ivory Smith. Chacin ran a red light at 2 a.m. and plowed into Ivory and her mom.
After smashing into the mom’s car, the drunk Venezuelan didn’t try to help them. Instead, he “got out of his car and started taking photos of the scene,” KHOU reported, citing cops.
In May last year, ICE caught a drunk-driving Mexican illegal in Connecticut who killed two people in 2011. The state corrections department refused to honor an ICE detainer when they released him in April. Agents were forced to track him down.
And in 2023, a drunk-driving Mexican, 32-year-old Aaron Santos-Pinzon, was sentenced for mowing down a 3-year-old girl in North Carolina in 2021. She was riding her tricycle.
