The man accused of drinking four beers before crashing his car into an SUV and injuring several children in Texas last week is an illegal immigrant from Honduras, federal immigration officials told The Daily Wire.
Dallas police arrested Jose Luis Castro Alvarado, 20, on Saturday after they said he ran a red light at around 10:00 p.m. and crashed into an SUV, seriously injuring six children. According to police, Alvarado allegedly admitted to police that he had consumed two beers before the crash, but a passenger in his vehicle said they each drank four beers just before the crash.
One of the children injured, a 4-year-old child who was thrown out of the vehicle, is in critical condition, according to Fox 4. He suffered multiple fractures and a lacerated liver. An injured 5-year-old required jaw surgery.
Alvarado, a citizen of Honduras, was charged with two counts of collision involving injury, two counts of collision involving serious bodily injury, and two counts of intoxication assault with a vehicle. He is currently being held at the Kays Tower detention center in Dallas.
A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told The Daily Wire that Alvarado illegally entered the United States around September 22, 2021, near La Joya, Texas, which is about 500 miles south of Dallas. ICE said he entered “without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by an immigration officer.”
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Alvarado cannot be released from prison because ICE placed a detainer on him after Dallas police took him into custody.
Police said that Alvarado denied being under the influence of alcohol but that his eyes were bloodshot when they arrested him, according to an affidavit on the incident obtained by Fox 4.
After the accident, investigators said that Alvarado ran from the scene, and a police K-9 located him hiding in the bushes in a nearby neighborhood. Police said he did not stop to check on the victims of the crash before fleeing.
Earlier this year, the Republican-controlled House passed a measure that would deport non-citizens convicted of DUIs, though the legislation stalled out in the Senate Judiciary Committee.