Another illegal alien almost killed a mother and her two children on July 4th in Arizona in a hit and run car accident because he was high on marijuana. It turns out this illegal has actually been deported six times in the last three years, since 2012, and yet he keeps coming right back across our open border and this family almost paid for it with their lives.
FOX 10 – Two small children and their mother were injured in a DUI crash in Pinal County on July 4th and deputies say the man who caused the wreck is an immigrant who had been deported six times in the last three years.
The driver has a long history of being kicked out of the country, but deputies say that didn’t stop him from coming back and getting behind the wheel while high on drugs, then causing a serious crash that happened in the middle of the afternoon on a rural road south of Maricopa.
Deputies say 29-year-old Manuel Perez-Vasquez nearly killed a young family. They were driving down Papago Road and the mother tried to avoid the crash.
“And she sees a car coming head on into her lane, so she immediately pulls over as far as she could off the side of the road and this car still comes and sideswipes… totaling her car,” said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.
The 2-year-old girl was rushed to a nearby hospital. Her 5-year-old brother suffered a large cut to his head and had to be flown to a trauma center.
Deputies say there were as many as five people inside the SUV and they all ran into a nearby field, but Perez-Vasquez returned.
“He did admit he had marijuana earlier within the last 24 hours,” said Babeu.
Perez-Vasquez is an immigrant from Mexico who had been deported from the U.S. six times since May 2012. This is the first time he’s been arrested in Pinal County. Sheriff Babeu says he will not turn this suspect into federal custody.