Jorge Dominguez should have been in jail on an immigration hold at the time he allegedly crashed while driving drunk, resulting in the death of a Brighton woman and injuries to her husband and son on Memorial Day. ( KENOSHA NEWS PHOTO BY KEVIN POIRIER )


Published June 7, 2010 | 11:24 p.m.

Mixup confounds immigration and police officials


Suspect in alleged drunken driving fatality should have been in jail



By Denise Lockwood
dlockwood@kenoshanews.com

If Jorge Dominguez would have been in jail on an immigration hold and not driving a car on Memorial Day, Dawn Glogovsky would probably still be alive.

Dominguez was here illegally, according to immigration officials. Dominguez had an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold, but it somehow got dropped from two area law enforcement records. Meanwhile the ICE agency said the hold was there for at least 10 months and they don’t know what caused the communication disconnect.

Prior to the car crash that killed Glogovsky, Dominguez had numerous contacts with law enforcement agencies. The Burlington Police Department and the Racine and Cook county sheriff’s departments arrested Dominguez for battery, possession of cocaine, obstructing a police officer and a felony count of possession of a controlled substance, according to law enforcement officials.

On Memorial Day, Dominguez allegedly drove into the intersection of highways 45 and N in Paris about 10:45 p.m. and crashed into a car. Glogovsky, a passenger in that car, died. Her husband, Frank J. Glogovsky, was injured, and their 13-year-old son, Frank R. “Remiâ€