Putnam Sheriff: Another illegal alien charged with DWI, faces deportation
By Terence Corcoran • tcorcora@lohud.com • July 16, 2009

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SOUTHEAST - A Connecticut man in the country illegally from Mexico is being held at the Putnam County jail on a federal immigration detainer warrant after a Putnam deputy charged him this week with driving while intoxicated, police said today.





Putnam Deputy Kevin McManus was on patrol Tuesday around 3:20 a.m. when he stopped Esteban De Jesus Munoz-Adame, 27, of 6 Prindle Lane in Danbury, Conn., for a traffic violation, police said. McManus determined he was under the influence and charged him with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, police said.



Munoz-Adame is at least the third illegal alien charged with driving while intoxicated in the Brewster area since June 8, when Zacaria Conses-Garcia, a 35-year-old Guatemalan who authorities say was in the country illegally, drove drunk through Brewster and struck and killed a 37-year-old mother and her 8-year-old daughter as they were leaving the girl's dance class.



Munoz-Adame was arraigned before Town Justice Richard Vercollone, who sent him to the Putnam County jail in Carmel in lieu of $500 bail.



Once Munoz-Adame arrived at the jail, authorities determined he was in the country illegally from Mexico and contacted federal Immigration and Custom Enforcement, which placed a detainer warrant on him, police said.


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