Thread: Boxborough police arrest illegal alien on his sixth DUI

Boxborough police arrest illegal immigrant on his sixth DUI charge

09/25/2011 4:07 PM
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

A Marlborough man, who was in the country illegally and had been previously deported, was arrested Saturday morning in Boxborough on his sixth drunken driving charge, police said.

Boxborough police said that Eduardo Alementa Torres, 48, originally from Mexico, was driving a vehicle with an expired inspection sticker when an officer stopped him at about 10:45 a.m.

The officer saw an open beer bottle on the passenger seat and detected a strong odor of alcohol, police said. Torres failed a field sobriety test and submitted to a breath test, which showed that his blood alcohol level was .09 percent, according to police. The legal limit in Massachusetts is .08 percent.

Police said Torres had no identification on him and gave the officer a fake name.

He was identified when police ran his fingerprints through an automated identification system, and further investigation revealed that he had three prior drunken driving convictions in California and two in Massachusetts, police said.

Police also learned that Torres is a previously deported fugitive wanted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A spokesman for the ICE field office in Boston could not immediately be reached for comment today.

A Registry of Motor Vehicles spokesman said no information on Torres’s driving record in Massachusetts or how he obtained a license to drive in the state was available today.

Police said Torres was charged with operating under the influence of liquor, 6th offense; operating with a suspended registration; operating an unregistered vehicle; possessing an open container of liquor in a vehicle; operating with a suspended driver’s license; giving a false name to a police officer and operating without an inspection sticker.

He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Ayer District Court.

Travis Andersen can be reached at tandersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe.

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This is a common occurence, illegals being deported and returning over and over again.

All minor violations , according to the new standards. He has not actually killed anyone, YET.

This behavior is not the exception with illegal invaders, but rather the norm.

Fugitive nabbed in 6th DUI rap

By Ira Kantor
Monday, September 26, 2011 - Updated 2 hours ago


A “previously deported fugitiveâ€

Is DUI considered a civil offense? If so this guy isn't a criminal and would be defended by those arguing against SecureCom deporting non-criminals.

Alleged illegal immigrant charged with OUI in Boxboro

lowellsun.com
By Robert Mills, rmills@lowellsun.com
Updated: 09/26/2011 06:34:54 AM EDT

BOXBORO -- Police said a 48-year-old man arrested Saturday morning is an illegal immigrant, wanted for returning to the U.S. after being deported, who they caught with an open bottle of beer as he was driving drunk for the sixth time.

Boxboro police also said Eduardo Alementa Torres, 48, of 13 Cross St., Unit 3, Marlboro, did not have the car he was driving registered or inspected.

Police said Officer Nathan Bowolick first noticed Torres in the area of 1425 Massachusetts Ave., on Saturday about 10:44 a.m., because the car Torres was driving had an expired inspection sticker.

Bowolick ran the car's license plate and learned it also had a suspended registration, which prompted him to pull the car over. Inside, police said, Bowolick noticed the driver smelled like alcohol, and had an open bottle of beer on the passenger seat.

Torres had no identification on him, and initially gave police a name for which no records could be found, according to police. He failed a field sobriety test, and was arrested, fingerprinted and given a Breathalyzer test, according to police.

Police said Torres' blood-alcohol content was recorded as .09. The legal limit is .08.


Torres

Using fingerprints, police said officers determined Torres' true identity, and discovered he is wanted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency because he is a previously deported fugitive who returned to the U.S.

Police said Torres has three prior convictions for drunken driving in California, and two prior convictions for drunken driving in Massachusetts.

He was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, (sixth offense), operating with a suspended registration, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, operating with a suspended license, and operating without an inspection sticker.

Torres was held without bail over the weekend. He was scheduled to be arraigned today in Ayer District Court.

http://www.lowellsun.com/local/ci_18978589

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