Brewster troopers: 2 illegal immigrants drove under the influence
By Terence Corcoran • tcorcora@lohud.com • November 23, 2009

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SOUTHEAST — Two suspected illegal immigrants from Connecticut are being held at the Putnam County jail on federal immigration detainer warrants after troopers from the Brewster barracks charged them over the weekend with driving while under the influence of alcohol, state police said today.







Edison Macancala, 24, of Danbury was stopped on Route 6 around 3:30 a.m. Saturday because one of his car’s headlights was out, police said. The trooper then took him into custody and took him to the barracks, where his blood-alcohol level was determined to be 0.26 percent — more than three times the legal threshold of 0.08 percent for driving while intoxicated in New York state.



Police charged Macancala with driving while intoxicated and aggravated driving while intoxicated, misdemeanors. Police notified federal Immigration and Customers Enforcement and determining that Macancala is in the country illegally from Ecuador.



About an hour later, around 4:30 a.m. Saturday, Manuel Sarmiento-Reinoso, 26, also of Danbury, was stopped for running a stop sign at Sodom Road. He appeared to be intoxicated and was charged with driving while ability impaired by alcohol, a violation, after his blood-alcohol level was determined to be 0.07 percent, police said.



Troopers determined tha Sarmiento-Reinoso had been deported to Guatemala in 2004 and had apparently sneaked back into the county. He is also being held on a detainer warrant.



Their arrests come less than three weeks after Conses Garcia-Zacarias, a 35-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala with no license and a blood-alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit, pleaded guilty to two counts of vehicular homicide in the June deaths of Lori and Kayla Donohue, a mother and daughter he mowed down with a pickup truck as they left the 8-year-old girl’s dance class in Brewster.



The arrest of Garcia-Zacarias united many in the community against illegal immigration and drunken driving. Garcia-Zacarias, who has been held at the Putnam County jail since June, faces up to 25 years in prison at his scheduled Jan. 13 sentencing.


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