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Man not deported after 14 arrests
Feds not aware of immigrant's cases


Gustavo Reyes Garcia

By SHEILA BURKE
Staff Writer

Published: Friday, 06/16/06
Federal and local authorities are trying to figure out how an illegal immigrant from Mexico managed to avoid deportation despite being arrested more than a dozen times in the past five years, agency officials said Thursday.

Gustavo Reyes Garcia, 28, has accumulated dozens of criminal charges and been arrested 14 times in Nashville without being flagged by federal authorities for being in the country illegally.

He caught their attention after he was accused of killing two people on June 8. It was his 15th arrest.

"The jail management records do not show a federal hold placed on Garcia, except for the one that he has now," said Karla Crocker, spokeswoman for the Davidson County Sheriff's Office.

Garcia stands accused of drinking, getting behind the wheel of an SUV and killing Mt. Juliet couple Sean and Donna Wilson while fleeing from police last week.

Garcia and a man driving in a third vehicle also were injured in the wreck on Old Hickory Boulevard near Southfork Boulevard.

Metro General Sessions Judge Gloria Dumas bound his case over to the Davidson County grand jury after a preliminary hearing on Thursday.

Garcia's past charges include four DUI arrests, evading arrest, and two separate incidents in which he was accused of leaving the scene of an accident where there was bodily injury.

Law enforcement officials could not explain yesterday how he managed to escape the attention of immigration authorities in the past.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said she would have to research Garcia's case to see if federal officials were notified of his arrests in the past.

Garcia is being held in the Metro Jail, charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and evading arrest. •


Published: Friday, 06/16/06


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Isn't it amazing, if us peon citizens break the law, we are dealt with the first time out, but it times the illegals to break the law many times before anyone does a damn thing. Has this country lost it's damn mind? Our government is beyond incompetent. Why the people of this country continue to allow this to happen is beyond me? There should be mass protests in the streets to stop this, but all the sheep make every excuse in the book not to.

THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! 4 DUI's, evading arrest, 2 times leaving the scene of an accident with injuries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What were they thinking of? There should be some district attorney or other law enforcement person somewhere that should lose his job.
I'm at a loss for words.

I wonder what would happen to me if I went out and committed 14 serious crimes?

Would I get off scott-free until I committed murder?

I think not!