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MY PRAYERS FOR THE FAMILY AND FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE LOST SOMEONE DUE TO THIS MESS THAT AMERICA IS IN!
Another tragic story.
Not much to say except It will only get worse since both Presidential candidates have vowed to award amnesty for these illegals, that I have no doubt will come through a Presidential Directive Order despite the continuous deaths and crime against Americans.
I'm done.
Too disgusted to say anything more.
Here is his full rap sheet of crimes..
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Ice cream shop victim's family enraged
Son: Why was man arrested 16 times free to kill 3 in crash?
By Tom McGhee
The Denver Post
Three days after Francis M. Hernandez drove into Patricia Guntharp's pickup, killing her and two others, Guntharp's family wanted to know why a man with 16 arrests in five years wasn't already behind bars.
"Our system is messed up.
It is mind-blowing.
You mean to tell me that this guy was still out on the street?" asked Richard Allen Gagne, 32, Patricia Guntharp's son.
Hernandez's record includes forgery, assault, theft, fraud and driving under restraint.
He was arrested in a July traffic stop and charged with resisting police and other offenses.
Immigration officials believe Hernandez is not a U.S. citizen and could be "deport-able," Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said Sunday.
ICE first became aware of Hernandez, whose Colorado Bureau of Investigation records show 11 aliases and several places and dates of birth, after he was arrested Thursday, Rusnok said.
ICE has placed a hold on him, and he will be transferred to federal custody if he is released from jail.
"Why in the world do they allow somebody to stay on the road when they could have done something about that?" asked Robert Guntharp, 56, Patricia Guntharp's husband.
Police say that Thursday, Hernandez, who was driving without a license, slammed his sport utility vehicle into Patricia Guntharp's Mazda pickup on South Havana Street in Aurora.
The collision sent her vehicle careening into a Baskin-Robbins, where Marten Kudlis, 3, was ready to have some ice cream.
Marten; Guntharp, 49, of Centennial; and her best friend and passenger in the truck, Debra Serecky, 51, of Aurora, died.
A man who identified himself as one of Serecky's sons declined to comment on the accident Sunday.
A spokesman for the Kudlis family didn't return a call asking for a family comment.
Patricia Guntharp and Serecky were inseparable friends, "like peanut butter and jelly," said Robert Guntharp.
The women met a dozen years ago when they were neighbors.
Both had grown sons and grandchildren.
And both loved the frozen custard served at Good Times fast-food restaurants.
On the night they died, Patricia Guntharp had picked up Serecky, who was on a lunch break from the supermarket where she worked.
They were turning into a driveway leading to the South Havana Good Times when a blue Chevy Suburban that had been driving erratically smashed into their white pickup.
"She told me she would be out there about an hour," Robert Guntharp said.
"The hours passed, and I called on her cellphone and I wasn't getting any answers. Then I saw lights out there, and I thought, 'Jeesh, it's about time.' "
He looked out the window and saw police walking toward his house.
"I am still hoping it is a bad dream, but it is not a dream; it's reality," Guntharp said.
Patricia Guntharp, whose two small granddaughters called her "Care Bear," broke her back in an auto accident about five years ago. Since then, she had gone through surgery and was scheduled to have another operation in the next few weeks.
Recently, doctors found a growth on her lungs.
But, her husband, said: "If she was sad and depressed, she never let us know about it.
"
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Suspect in 3 deaths was under the radar
By Tom McGhee and Christopher N.
Osher
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 09/09/2008 01:02:34 AM MDT
Francis Hernandez was here illegally and arrested many times, but his traffic violations weren't exchanged among agencies.
Francis Hernandez, accused of causing a collision that resulted in three deaths, is in the country illegally.
He had 16 arrests to his name and a predilection for ducking court dates, but his jail time was measured in days, not years.
Officials say law enforcement agencies throughout the state don't routinely exchange information on the records of those arrested for traffic violations, so Hernandez's previous arrests and warrants weren't always noted.
The information wasn't available to the last judge to try him for a traffic offense last month, just two weeks before he allegedly broadsided a pickup and sent it careening into an Aurora ice cream shop Thursday.
"This case was very typical.
It would have included his (Division of Motor Vehicles) history and information from our traffic file but no (criminal check)," said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey.
And in spite of his numerous brushes with the law, no arresting agency ever asked immigration officials to check his status.
"We had no reason or probable cause to believe he was here illegally," Denver police spokeswoman Sharon Hahn said of Hernandez, who used 11 aliases.
Since his arrest Thursday, the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement Agency has determined that he probably entered the country illegally from Guatemala in 1991, said ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok.
"This has been a challenging case because of the number of aliases," Rusnok said. "I understand he has falsely claimed U.S. citizenship, and if (other agencies) did think he was legal, there was no reason to report him to ICE."
Colorado law requires enforcement agencies to report possible illegal immigrants to federal authorities for offenses more serious than traffic citations.
The Denver DA's office every day faxes to ICE a list of people arrested on felony charges, said Kimbrough.
But Hernandez's one felony conviction occurred before the state law went into effect.
Republican members of the state legislature voiced outrage over the system's failure to keep Hernandez off the street, blaming Gov. Bill Ritter's Democratic administration.
"It's time that we put a stop to the catch-and-release practice that allowed this tragedy to occur," said Rep. Jim Kerr, R-Jefferson County.
"It is the first duty of government to protect public safety.
As the chief enforcement office of Colorado, Gov. Ritter has a responsibility to address illegal immigration when it poses such a serious risk to public safety."
Ritter spokesman Evan Dreyer responded by accusing Republicans of using the tragedy to bludgeon political opponents.
"This is shameful, deplorable and degrading to the people those lawmakers claim to represent and to the memories of Marten Kudlis, Patricia Guntharp and Debra Serecky," the three who died in the accident.
"This was a senseless, terrible tragedy," Dreyer said.
"Like all Coloradans, Gov. Ritter is outraged that anyone — especially someone who is apparently in this country illegally — could compile such a lengthy criminal record and still remain free to kill three innocent people."
In one instance, Hernandez spent 32 days in jail after a Lakewood arrest for criminal impersonation when he gave officers an alias and lied about having a driver's license.
He spent another 25 days in the Gilpin County jail for having a forged instrument.
Other offenses also drew brief stints behind bars.
In Denver County Court, Judge Claudia Jordan, armed only with Hernandez's previous traffic offenses, didn't know about the forged instrument, the misdemeanor assault or the shoplifting charge appearing on his record.
Nor would she have known that he failed four times to appear in two cases in Jefferson County, a pattern he repeated frequently on an arrest record dating to 2003.
Many of his arrests were due to traffic offenses.
It is not clear whether Hernandez ever had a Colorado driver's license, said Colorado Department of Revenue spokesman Mark Couch.
Denver police stopped him May 24 at East 16th Avenue and Willow Street and wrote him a summons for failing to use his headlights and driving without proof of insurance and a valid license.
On May 31, Denver police cited him again for driving without a valid license and other violations.
He missed a court date and wasn't brought before a judge on the charges until he was arrested July 18 in another case, said Kimbrough.
On that date, he was stopped for not having a license plate on his car.
The arresting officer smelled alcohol on Hernandez, and Hernandez provided a false name, according to the complaint.
When the officer couldn't find in the computer system the alias that Hernandez provided, Hernandez admitted he had lied and fled.
He was apprehended and continued to resist arrest until police subdued him.
He pleaded guilty to several charges, and a magistrate sentenced him to five days in jail.
The May cases were lumped together, and he appeared before Jordan.
She dismissed the case in exchange for Hernandez's pleading guilty to one charge of driving while under restraint.
Under the plea bargain, he faced five days in jail.
Jordan gave him until Dec. 17 to obtain a driver's license, telling him that if he did so, he would serve no jail time.
On Thursday he was spotted weaving in and out of traffic before slamming into Guntharp's Mazda.
http://news. politicswest. com/breakingnews/ci_10414149
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