Vicente Torres-Vasquez, 63, (right) was arrested by ICE Wednesday, nine days after Illinois paroled him from a prison sentence for a drunken driving crash in Wauconda on July 24, 2011, that killed Gregory Errol Homola, 55, (left) a Marine Corps veteran. | Photo – Left: U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Photo – Right: Illinois Department of Corrections
By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner
A Mexican national who killed a Marine Corps veteran in a drunken driving crash in Wauconda was arrested by ICE Wednesday after a state prison paroled him without honoring an immigration detainer, federal officials said.
Vicente Torres-Vasquez, 63, a Mexican national, was arrested Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement Friday.
Torres-Vasquez was convicted in 2012 of one count of aggravated driving under the influence resulting in death, a Class 2 felony, and two counts of aggravated driving under the influence resulting in great bodily harm, both Class 4 felonies.
DHS said Torres-Vasquez was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Illinois Department of Corrections records show prison terms of 11 years on the death count and seven years on each of the great bodily harm counts.
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Editorial note: Later in the report it states:
“’This illegal alien was sentenced to 25 years in prison after killing a man while drunk behind the wheel. When ICE lodged a detainer ahead of his release on parole, sanctuary politicians in J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois refused to cooperate with us and released him without notifying ICE,’ Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said.”
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