Thread: MN: police miss THREE chances to identify IA van driver

Police had three chances to identify Olga Franco as an illegal alien before she killed 4 children.

In 1996 - Franco had a no driver license violation. No identification as an illegal alien.
(Bottom of page 4 of complaint): http://media.myfoxtwincities.com/pdfs/mn001.PDF

May, 2006 - she got a ticket and paid a $187 fine for driving (on a lawn!) without a license.
Didn't know how the use the automatic transmission shift 'knob'!!
Identity not verified, not deported.
http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=0,66690

January 2008, stopped by police, was a passenger with boyfriend, driving a Plymouth Voyager,
who had only a learner's permit. She had no license. No identification, no deportation.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/dis...08/02/25/olga/
Did the van have the same (illegal) license plate it had the next month??

A month later, in February, 2008 - driving the same van, with stolen license plates, she kills 4 children.

http://www.marshallindependent.com/n...rticleID=19514
The license plates on Morales’ (Plymouth Voyager) van were registered to a 1991 Chevrolet four-door sedan and were last registered with the state in May 2004, according the Department of Public Safety.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox...Y&pageId=3.1.1
According to the criminal complaint, Morales was driving a 1998 Plymouth Voyager without a valid drivers’ license, failed to stop for a stop sign and struck the school bus resulting in the deaths of Reed Stevens, Emilee Olson and brothers Hunter and Jesse Javens.

It gets worse.....one of the children killed left behind a grieving twin sister...and their shared 10th birthday was the day of the burial. REad on...and don't forget to send this to the Guatemalan consulates and LA RAZA

Minn. Girl Turns 10 at Brothers' Funeral

By Associated Press
9:11 PM EST, February 25, 2008

Article tools

* EmailE-mail
* Share
o Digg
o Del.icio.us
o Facebook
o Fark
o Google
o Newsvine
o Reddit
o Yahoo
* Print Print
* ReprintReprints
* Text size:increase text sizedecrease text size

COTTONWOOD, Minn. - A girl whose twin brother and older brother were among four children killed in a bus crash turned 10 at their funeral Monday, with 1,400 mourners in a school gym pausing to sing "Happy Birthday" to her.

The service for Jesse Javens, 13, and Hunter Javens, 9, included some painful smiles meant for Hunter's twin, Sasha.

"Hunter would want to celebrate his twin sister's birthday. Jesse would want to celebrate his little sister's birthday," the Rev. Gloria Anderson said at Lakeview School in the southwest Minnesota town of Cottonwood, near the site of last week's crash.

Immigration agents said Monday they'd learned the true identity of the van driver charged with running a stop sign and hitting the bus. Investigators said Olga Marina Franco, 24, of Guatemala, gave them a fake name after the crash and told them she was from Mexico.

Franco is charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and lesser crimes. Authorities say she claims she stopped at the sign and the bus hit her.

Attorney Manuel Guerrero, who represented the woman at a hearing Friday, did not immediately return a call Monday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers say they believe Franco is an illegal immigrant.

OMG, I thought it couldn't get any worse for this family who lost two. Now we learn this. Absolutely heartbreaking...

Do you have a link?

What do you think about this those who say 'they harm no one and only come here to work...'

Is her name Franco or Morales???
The article starts out saying it's Franco then goes on calling her Morales.

There is nothing so expensive as 'cheap labor'.

I hope her 'enablers' (employers primarily) are sued into oblivion.

Is her name Franco or Morales???
The article starts out saying it's Franco then goes on calling her Morales.

Her real name is Franco. Her alias was Morales. The bottom paragraphs in my original post are quotes from the adjacent linked articles, which were written before they knew her real name.

She lied about her name, age, and country of origin.

Originally Posted by fred5678

Is her name Franco or Morales???
The article starts out saying it's Franco then goes on calling her Morales.

Her real name is Franco. Her alias was Morales. The bottom paragraphs in my original post are quotes from the adjacent linked articles, which were written before they knew her real name.

She lied about her name, age, and country of origin.

I bet she was hoping she would simply be deported to Mexico so she could sneak back in easier.
From the looks of things she's going to be jaik a long time.