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07-21-2007, 05:02 PM #1
DUI illegal guilty of injuring trooper in crash
Man found guilty of DUI charge
The driver gets more than a year in jail in crash that injured a Virginia state trooper.BY JON CAWLEY
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July 20, 2007
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/mi ... s-local-mp
GLOUCESTER -- The Mexican man detained in Gloucester on an immigration charge since he plowed into a state trooper will serve more than a year in jail for the drunken driving crash.
Through a Spanish-speaking interpreter, Alfonso Cedillo Maldonado, 29, pleaded not guilty in Gloucester General District Court Thursday to charges of driving under the influence and driving without a license.
The charges stemmed from a Route 17 crash that left a Virginia State Police trooper with back injuries and some minor arm burns from a discharged air bag.
After the hearing that included a showing of a crash video taken by a dashboard-mounted camera in the trooper's patrol car, General District Court Judge R. Bruce Long found Maldonado guilty of both charges.
Long then sentenced Maldonado to 12 months in Gloucester's jail and a $2,500 fine on the drunken driving charge.
He tacked on an additional six months in jail and $1,000 fine for driving without a license. Maldonado's driving privileges were also suspended for one year.
Gloucester attorney Andrew Johnson said he would appeal the sentences he described as the maximum allowed.
The conviction and sentencing followed a string of drunken driving cases heard in court Thursday morning - none of which compared to Maldonado's, Long said.
He characterized Maldonado's violation as "egregious as they come with the exception that no one was killed."
According to court testimony, Trooper Maxwell H. Williamson, was confronted by a car heading straight at him as he searched for a driver reported to be heading the wrong way on Route 17.
The trooper swerved his patrol car and was spun 180 degrees by the nearly head-on impact.
At Gloucester's Riverside Walter Reed Memorial Hospital, Maldonado was given a blood test that showed his blood alcohol level to be 0.26, said Virginia State Trooper Jess Hazelwood, who investigated the June 10 crash.
Under Virginia law, 0.08 is considered the threshold for being considered legally drunk.
A check of Maldonado's status in the National Crime Information Center database alerted the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency who ordered Maldonado held on an immigration violation.
At that time, an ICE spokeswoman said deportation proceedings would begin after the Gloucester charges were resolved.
ICE officials could not be reached for comment Thursday.Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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07-21-2007, 05:14 PM #2
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07-21-2007, 06:14 PM #3He tacked on an additional six months in jail and $1,000 fine for driving without a license. Maldonado's driving privileges were also suspended for one year."The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**
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