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    Paramedic killed by immigrant driver

    Paramedic killed by immigrant driver
    By Patricia Farrell Aidem, Staff Writer

    AGUA DULCE - A paramedic heading home from an overnight shift was killed at dawn Tuesday when a motorist - an illegal immigrant with a lengthy rap sheet - plowed into him on a rural stretch of Sierra Highway, the Highway Patrol reported.
    Co-workers of Lancaster resident Michael Sprinkles, a 37-year-old husband and father of two, were among the first to respond to the 6:30 a.m. collision north of Canyon Country.

    "It seems like it's always the good guys, you know?" said Greg Schowen, public affairs manager for American Medical Response, the ambulance company that employed Sprinkles for 10 years. "Mike was a total family guy, a good friend and a hard worker. He always volunteered when we needed someone to help out."

    Sprinkles, riding a motorcycle, was heading home to Lancaster after a 24-hour shift at Los Angeles County Fire Station 107 in Canyon Country. Coming the opposite direction was Juan Bibinz, 38, of Littlerock, driving a Mazda Protege, CHP Officer Wendy Hahn said.

    According to witnesses, Bibinz had been driving recklessly and crossed the double-yellow center line south of Davenport Road, where his vehicle slammed head-on into Sprinkles, Hahn said. Bibinz suffered minor injuries and was treated in the jail ward at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center.

    He was arrested and upon his release will be booked on suspicion of felony manslaughter and reckless driving resulting in death,

    she said.

    "(Sprinkles) was just off work and was going home," Hahn said. "The Mazda crossed the double yellow lines right into the motorcycle."

    Bibinz, she said, is an illegal immigrant who has been arrested a dozen times and was deported once to Mexico. He has been convicted of four felonies, drug charges, thefts and a count of willful cruelty to a child, for which he served five days in jail. Bibinz did not appear to be intoxicated, she said.

    Bibinz was most recently arrested July 18 on suspicion of petty theft in Hawthorne and was released the next day, sheriff's records show.

    At the AMR regional office in Lancaster, which operates ambulance service in the north county, grief counselors were available Tuesday to meet with the staff.

    Sprinkles helped train new paramedics and taught the company's driver training program. He is survived by his wife, Rose, and sons, Austin, 12, and Logan, 9.


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    Honestly, how many innocent Americans are going to have to die before we start enforcing our immigration laws?

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    Not again Damn that Bush. He's getting Americans killed right here on U.S. soil everyday

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    500 attend service for EMT killed in crash

    Charles F. Bostwick, Staff Writer
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    LANCASTER - Some 500 firefighters, law enforcement officers, co-workers, family members and friends paid their last respects to an emergency medical technician killed in a head-on collision on his way home from work.
    Firetrucks and ambulances were parked outside the Lancaster JetHawks' stadium for the memorial service for Michael Sprinkles, described by friends and family as outgoing, hard-working, a good friend, and a loving father and husband.

    "For those who knew Mike well, he was just a big teddy bear with a boisterous voice," said Mike Kirkland, who worked with Sprinkles at American Medical Response ambulance service.

    Sprinkles, 37, who was with AMR for 10 years, had been working out of a fire station in Canyon Country. He was riding his motorcycle home on Sept. 6 to Lancaster from an overnight shift in Canyon Country when he was hit by a car that crossed the center line on Sierra Highway.

    Wednesday's memorial service was held at Lancaster's Clear Channel Stadium because American Medical Response staffed all the JetHawks' home baseball games.

    Sprinkles' wife, Rose, and sons Austin, 11, and Logan, 9, sat with the rest of his family around a podium set up at home plate as Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, California Highway Patrol officers and scores of AMR co-workers filled stadium seats.

    "I always liked working with Mike as a paramedic. I always could rely on him to get in there and do the job," said Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedic Steve Bartram.

    Bartram lives across the street from the Sprinkles' home. Bartram said Sprinkles loved to engage in friendly competitions over who had the greenest lawn or the best Christmas decorations.

    "Mike was full of life," said county Fire Department Chaplain Don Kanallakan. "The last emergency response I was on with Mike, it was typical Mike. He took care of business, but then he would also sidle up beside you and tell you how he had bought a boat and he and his family were going to the river for 1 1/2 weeks."

    Jailed in the crash that killed Sprinkles is a 38-year-old ex-convict named Juan Bibinz, a Littlerock resident who authorities said is in the U.S. illegally after having been deported to Mexico in 1999. Authorities said Bibinz had a driver's license under one of many assumed names.

    Witnesses told CHP officers that Bibinz, in a Mazda Protege, had been driving recklessly and crossed the double-yellow center line of Sierra Highway near Davenport Road and hit Sprinkles' motorcycle. Bibinz did not appear to be intoxicated, CHP officers said.

    Bibinz has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and is jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.

    The family asked that donations be made through American Medical Response to the Michael Sprinkles Memorial Fund.
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    Alien Thinking
    By Rich Tucker

    Sep 16, 2005


    Accidents will happen. But, as any insurance company will tell you, most accidents could have been prevented. That?s what allows an accident to become a tragedy.

    Consider Michael Sprinkles. The 37-year-old paramedic was riding his motorcycle home from work on Sept. 6 when the California Highway Patrol says a car crossed the double-yellow line and killed him. Sprinkles? death could easily have been prevented. The driver of the car shouldn?t have been behind the wheel -- or even in this country. Suspect Juan Bibinz is an illegal alien.

    This isn?t Bibinz?s first brush with the law. He?s been arrested a dozen times. ?He has been convicted of four felonies, drug charges, thefts and a count of willful cruelty to a child, for which he served five days in jail,? the Los Angeles Daily News reported on Sept. 7. Oh, and he?s been deported to Mexico -- once.

    How can an illegal alien be arrested again and again, yet sent home only once? Maybe because it?s official L.A.P.D. policy that officers can?t ask about a suspect?s citizenship. ?Special Order 40, enacted in 1979, bars police from enforcing federal immigration laws,? is how the ACLU put it in a 2001 news release. And, it noted, ?the Police Commission?s own Independent Review Panel noted how critical the Order is to ensure public safety.? Tell that to Michael Sprinkles.

    The ACLU claims that Special Order 40 is ?essential.? But a better word for it would be ?illegal.? The state?s penal code reads, ?Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws.? Not much ambiguity there.

    Special Order 40 is useful, though. It explains why the United States is facing an illegal immigration crisis: We don?t take illegal immigration seriously.

    As David Frum wrote recently in the Weekly Standard, ?Imagine if the United States enforced its drug laws the way it enforces its immigration rules. Local governments would be building open-air drug markets the way they now build hiring halls for ?day labor.??

    It?s even worse than that. Los Angeles not only wants shelters for illegal aliens -- it wants private companies to build them. A draft city ordinance would require stores where illegals gather to provide ?a minimum level of amenities? including drinking water and toilets. ?This multimillion-dollar business ignores the fact that these problems are created by the stores,? sais the sponsor of the ordinance, City Councilman Bernard Parks.

    But retail stores aren?t creating an illegal immigration problem -- they?re dealing with it. The government is creating the problem. After all, if the federal government would enforce its own immigration laws, there wouldn?t be aliens gathered outside Home Depots in California and 7-Elevens in Virginia.

    The sad truth is we haven?t actually tried very hard to stop illegal immigration.

    We need stronger enforcement along the Mexican border. The recent success of the volunteer Minutemen patrollers shows that if we increase the number of people on the lookout, we can decrease the number of illegal immigrants.

    The U.S. also needs to improve living conditions in Mexico, so potential illegal immigrants will have a reason to stay home and illegals here today will have a reason to go home. Such an economic turnaround is possible. Consider India.

    Not long ago, India was run by a quasi-communist government. It was virtually impossible to do business there, because there were so many bureaucrats requiring so many bribes. That?s why thousands of well-educated Indians moved to the U.S. But that?s not true today.

    In his book ?The World Is Flat,? Tom Friedman notes that the economy in India is growing so quickly that many Indians are actually leaving the U.S. to return home. ?A whole lot of American industry has come into Bangalore and I don?t really need to go there. I can work for a multinational sitting right here,? personnel manager Anney Unnikrishnan told Friedman. ?Why should I go to America?? The free market works.

    Mexico has plenty of natural resources, but its economy is still over-regulated. The CIA estimates that one quarter of the population is ?under employed,? which explains why they?d be so eager to come to the U.S. If we can convince the Mexican government to move more quickly toward an open, free-market economy, its people would have better lives, and we?d be able to cut down on illegals on the supply side.

    Our illegal immigration problem is no accident. It?s the result of decades of neglect. But it can be fixed, if we?re willing to enforce our laws and encourage others to fully adopt our economic values. The only tragedy will be if we don?t try.


    Rich Tucker is an editor in Washington D.C. and a columnist for Townhall.com. You can email him here.
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    Ex-con pleads not guilty of causing road death

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    An ex-convict pleaded not guilty Monday to a vehicular-manslaughter charge stemming from a crash that killed an off-duty emergency medical technician on a rural stretch of highway in Agua Dulce.
    Juan Bibinz, 38, of Littlerock remained in jail on $100,000 bail. He is due back in San Fernando Superior Court on Oct. 14 for a preliminary hearing, said Deputy District Attorney Lou Holtz Jr. If convicted, he could face up to six years in state prison.

    The Sept. 6 collision on Sierra Highway killed Michael S. Sprinkles, 37, of Lancaster. The father of two young boys was riding his motorcycle home from an overnight shift at a Los Angeles County Fire Department station in Canyon Country.

    Bibinz was arrested by California Highway Patrol officers at the scene of the crash, which occurred around dawn.

    Court Commissioner Jeffrey M. Harkavy last week doubled bail to $100,000, citing potential flight risk. Bibinz, an illegal immigrant who was deported in 1999, has past convictions ranging from grand theft to drug sales, Holtz said.
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    Man pleads guilty in death of paramedic
    Father of two was hit head-on by car

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    SAN FERNANDO - An ex-con in the country illegally pleaded guilty Thursday to vehicular manslaughter in the traffic death of an off-duty paramedic on a rural stretch of highway in Agua Dulce.
    Juan Bibinz, 39, of Littlerock entered the unexpected guilty plea before San Fernando Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen, who indicated he would sentence Bibinz on Monday to four years in state prison.

    Michael S. Sprinkles, a 37-year-old father of two, was killed around dawn last Sept. 6 on Sierra Highway.

    Sprinkles was riding his motorcycle home from an overnight shift at Los Angeles County Fire Station 107 in Canyon Country. Bibinz crossed the center divider and hit Sprinkles head-on.

    More than 500 firefighters, police, family members and co-workers from American Medical Response, where Sprinkles worked 10 years, crowded his memorial service in September. His wife, Rose, and sons Austin and Logan, 11 and 9 at the time, met privately with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Bibinz had prior felony convictions, served time in state prison, used numerous aliases and was deported in 1999, according to authorities. He returned to the U.S. illegally and faces deportation again after his release from prison.

    Witnesses to the crash said Bibinz had been driving erratically and crossed the center divider in his compact car, slamming into Sprinkles' motorcycle.

    Bibinz had faced a maximum of six years in state prison if he had gone to trial and been convicted.
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    Given four years by the judge but a max of six years if the matter had gone to trial.

    What is wrong with this picture?

    FOUR YEARS is way too little time esp. considering his extensive rap sheet.

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    Our justice system in this country is ludicrous, four years in prison for a person's life? I am tired of these lenient sentences for obviously repeat offenders that are a detriment and a danger to our society. I feel sorry for the families of people who are killed as they get no justice.
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    Why is this guy still here with a rap sheet that long?????? What are they nuts?
    He was given 4 years, he'll probably get out after 1 1/2 on "good" behavior and then back on the streets of the the good ol USA.
    They don't even deport them after they have been arrested 10 times!!!
    Do we have laws or not?
    They need to make 100 clone copies of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona and send him there.
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