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    ILLEGAL ALIEN SENTENCED IN DUI DEATH OF AMY KORTLANG ; VIDEO



    Serial DUI Offender Sentenced In Deadly Crash

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    An illegal immigrant has been sentenced to 21 years to life in prison for causing a crash that killed a 22-year-old Ramona woman.

    Prosecutors say Rafael Ramirez Perez was under the influence when he collided head-on with Amy Kortlang last October on Highway 67.

    Perez has a history of drunken driving and was on probation during the high-speed crash that killed Kortlang.

    Her mother made an emotional appeal to the court Wednesday.

    "Please your honor, I'm begging on this court -- put this monster away forever and don't let him take some other mother's baby from her," Melanie Kortlang said.

    Perez pleaded guilty to murder, hit-and-run and other charges. He's also accused of injuring three other people during that crash, when he clipped their cars.



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    Man Accused Of Killing Woman Was In U.S. Illegally

    Suspect Was Deported In March

    POSTED: 4:51 pm PDT October 12, 2006
    UPDATED: 5:10 pm PDT October 12, 2006

    SAN DIEGO -- Officials said Thursday that a man accused of killing a young woman in a hit-and-run crash was in the U.S. illegally.

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    According to prosecutors, Rafael Ramirez Perez, 22, was deported to Mexico in 2006. Perez was in court Thursday in El Cajon for an arraignment in connection with Amy Kortlang's death

    Emotions ran high as the family of the victim and the suspect watched Perez walk into the courtroom. Kortlang's family came to court with pictures of her and the crumpled Honda she was driving when she was hit by a drunken driver and killed last week.

    Authorities said the driver took off on foot afterward. According to Kristian Troche, the deputy district attorney handling the case, Perez was that driver.

    During the arraignment, Perez never looked at Kortlang's family or the few members of his own family who were in court. At one point, he hung his head as the prosecutor described details of the hit-and-run, reported NBC 7/39..

    Troche said that Perez has four prior convictions for driving under the influence. NBC 7/39 searched court documents and found information that the first took place in April 2003. The next record listed a conviction in July 2003. Perez entered not guilty pleas and was sentenced to 12 days and probation for each of those convictions.

    In February 2005, Perez entered a guilty plea to a third DUI charge. In that case, he was sentenced to a year in prison.

    Then, in March 2006, he was deported to Mexico. Troche said that Perez was in the country illegally when he ran over Kortlang.

    Kortlang's family members told NBC 7/39 that they had expected a video arraignment and was warned by the court that he would be there in person. The news was too much for some family members to bear.

    "Rage, rage. I want my hands on him," said Melanie Kortlang, Amy's mother.

    For his part, Perez also had family in court on Thursday. One of his family members told NBC 7/39 that Perez's wife left him a few years ago and that sent him into a deep depression and he started drinking.

    Funeral services for Kortlang have been set for 6 p.m. at the Erickson Anderson Chapel in La Mesa.

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    Mother seeks justice for daughter killed in crash

    By: JO MORELAND - Staff Writer

    LA MESA -- The death of her daughter in a traffic crash that littered a Ramona highway with wreckage has given Melanie Kortlang a new mission.

    The 43-year-old La Mesa woman said last week that she now wants justice for her child, 22-year-old Amy Kortlang of Ramona.

    She also wants to know how the illegal immigrant arrested for murder after the collision could be here despite previous charges and deportation, Kortlang said.


    "How was this (man) allowed to come back ... and do the ultimate, which was kill my daughter?" Kortlang asked rhetorically in a phone interview.

    She said no one in government has offered any explanations about how Rafael Ramirez Perez, deported to Mexico earlier this year, was back on the road in Ramona the night of Oct. 16.

    That's when Perez, 22 and with no valid driver's license, allegedly caused a four-vehicle crash on Highway 67 that killed Amy Kortlang and injured three other people.

    He then walked away, authorities said. Perez was arrested two miles from the accident.

    "My goal right now is to keep Amy alive (in memory), and to prevent this from ever happening again," Melanie Kortlang said. "We've got to stop it."

    Kortlang said she plans on attending all of Perez's court appearances. Her thoughts about him, she said, are "not Christian."

    In addition to murder, Perez is charged with gross vehicular manslaughter and two counts of driving under the influence, plus driving without a license.

    There is an enhancement alleging he has had at least three drunken driving convictions within the last 10 years.

    If convicted of all the charges, Deputy District Attorney Kristian Trocha said Perez could be in prison for 25 years to life.

    Perez is currently being held in county jail with bail set at $1 million, in case an immigration hold on him somehow fails, Trocha said.

    California Highway Patrol Officer Brian Pennings said Perez was booked into the jail the same as any other suspect. The jails are operated by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

    "We screen for birthplace and citizenship of everyone who comes into custody," said Sheriff's Department Capt. Glenn Revell.

    He said the information goes to federal immigration authorities. They place jail holds on any suspected illegal immigrants, and those suspects are turned over to them after local cases are completed, Revell said.

    Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego, said after the fatal crash that Perez was handed over to immigration officials earlier this year, after serving time for a drunken driving conviction.

    He was deported to Mexico in March, Mack said.

    On the night of the crash, Perez was driving his company's work truck when the fatal accident happened on a dark stretch of Highway 67, south of Mussey Grade Road, Highway Patrol officers said.

    The company pickup truck veered into the opposite lane and sideswiped a Dodge Caliber before slamming head-on into Amy Kortlang's red Honda Civic. The Honda overturned, and she died at the scene.

    Just 18 minutes earlier, Melanie Kortlang said, she had finished some fun text messaging for the night with her daughter, part of their daily communication.

    "She had a wonderful sense of humor," Melanie Kortlang said.

    The mother recalled her daughter, a cosmetologist who worked at Supercuts in Ramona and at Poway Chevrolet, as a beautiful, responsible young woman "with a smile that would knock your socks off."

    "We were at that stage where we confided in one another," said Kortlang.

    Her daughter loved her boyfriend of two years, and was on her way to watch him play in a pool tournament in Poway when the crash happened, she said.

    Melanie Kortlang and her husband, Robert, also have a 16-year-old daughter, Jessica.

    "It's just this emptiness to us," Kortlang said about her oldest daughter's death. "I've never been so sad in my entire life. It's moment by moment. Right now I'm in a tunnel."

    -- Contact staff writer Jo Moreland at (760) 740-3524 or jmoreland@nctimes.com.

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    Troche said that Perez has four prior convictions for driving under the influence. NBC 7/39 searched court documents and found information that the first took place in April 2003. The next record listed a conviction in July 2003. Perez entered not guilty pleas and was sentenced to 12 days and probation for each of those convictions.
    So he's 22 years old and had his first DUI in 2003. That was 4 years ago, which would have made him 18. 18 years old, 3 years under the legal age to even drink at all, but he's caught committing a DUI and they give him 12 days and probation? Why did they not turn him over to ICE then? Why? Because in San Diego, they refuse to question the immigration status of any Mexican arrested for any crime. That's why we call San Diego, Mexico's Finest City.

    I hope this slimeball rots in jail, then rots in hell. The family should sue the government for not finding out the illegal staus of this murderer, and not deporting him immediately the first time, and especially for not securing the border and letting him back across again to drive drunk again and again, finally killing this girl. Bush needs to be held responsible for his deriliction of duty, resulting in the death of another innocent American.
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    this is the kinda bastard that bush will pardon while two BP agents rot in jail under his watch

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    Editions of the North County Times Serving San Diego and Riverside Counties Thursday, May 3, 2007 Contact Us Archive




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    Employer of driver in fatal Ramona crash agrees to settle lawsuit

    By: North County Times

    EL CAJON ---- The company that employed a man who authorities say is an illegal immigrant with prior drunken driving convictions has agreed to pay almost $450,000 to settle a lawsuit involving an October crash that killed a Ramona woman, court documents showed.

    The collision shortly before 9 p.m. Oct. 9, 2006, on Highway 67 south of Mussey Grade Road claimed the life of Amy Marie Kortlang, 22.

    The driver of the truck that struck Kortlang's car, Rafael Ramirez Perez, 22, pleaded guilty in December to second-degree murder and drunken driving charges in connection with the fatal crash and was sentenced in February to 21 years to life in state prison.

    Kortlang's parents, Melanie and Wayne Kortlang, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the Superior Court against Perez, the company that employed him ---- MK Concrete ---- and the company's owner, Mark Kackstetter.

    Documents filed in the Superior Court in El Cajon stated that the Kortlangs offered in writing on March 8 to resolve the lawsuit for a total amount of $449,999. The offer included the conditions that the defendants named in the lawsuit prove that the only liability insurance coverage available is a $500,000 automobile insurance policy and that the settlement amount be paid within 45 days of when the Kortlangs' offer was accepted.

    The offer also stated that if Kackstetter accepted the offer, all of the defendants in the lawsuit would be released from all of the legal claims the Kortlangs raised in the case.

    The attorney for Kackstetter and his company filed a document March 27 stating that they accepted the Kortlangs' offer to resolve the case.


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    You'll never see this story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, or any newspaper for that matter. However these same newspapers will run sob story after sob story about some illegal alien and their litter of anchor babies.
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    Wow, an employer held liable for hiring an illegal who ended up killing an innocent American. This is great news, though still tragic for the family. Hopefully this employer will get the message, you employ an illegal and they kill, you should pay the price or even go to jail. Maybe other employers will see this and learn a lesson. Hiring illegals can cost you a lot more than what you save by paying them sub-standard wages.

    Now if only the family could sue Bush for allowing this scumbag to come back across the border after being deported for the same exact offense, DUI. I think that would be the only way Bush would wise up, because he sure doesn't give a damn how many innocent people die at the hands of his beloved amigos, as long as he's never held responsible and his corporate masters get their cheap labor.

    Friggin' Bush, to me he's as much responsible for this young girl's death as anyone, along with the thousands of others who die every year at the hands of these lowlife criminal scum. How can this murderous traitor sleep at night knowing how many Americans he will allow to die, just so he can carry out his NAU treason and save his corporate buddies on their labor costs? I guess no amount of lives matter to him, as long as he carries out his master's wishes.
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