Trump Admin Intervenes in Case of Illegal Immigrant Convicted of DUI Deaths in California

The Mexican was convicted of killing a younger California couple whereas he was driving intoxicated in 2021.

The Trump administration is now concerned within the case of an unlawful immigrant who is ready to be launched greater than six years early from a California jail.

Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano was lately granted early launch after being convicted of killing a California couple in a crash whereas driving intoxicated in 2021.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has positioned a detainer on the unlawful immigrant, and he’ll instantly be transferred into ICE custody, the company confirmed on Wednesday.

“Twice deported unlawful alien from Mexico, Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, is serving time after being convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter whereas intoxicated, which resulted within the deaths of an American couple,” ICE stated in an announcement on X. “His earlier prison convictions embody housebreaking in 2005, car theft in 2007, and battery on a partner with kidnapping in 2014. After serving simply three years of a 10-year sentence, ICE has positioned a detainer with the California Division of Corrections upon his launch.”

In an emailed assertion to NTD, the sister media of The Epoch Instances, the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) confirmed that Ortega-Anguiano was granted early launch.

“CDCR can affirm Oscar E. Ortega-Anguiano, 43, was obtained from Orange County on June 2, 2022,” the division stated. “In line with the responsible plea out of Orange County, he was sentenced to 10 years for gross vehicular manslaughter whereas intoxicated. He obtained 334 days of pre-sentence credit for time served regionally whereas awaiting sentencing and is eligible for credit-earning alternatives whereas incarcerated.”

CDCR additionally confirmed to NTD that July 2025 can be his earliest potential launch date.

“For security and safety causes, CDCR can’t present additional info on an incarcerated particular person’s launch date or location upfront of their launch,” it added.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to cooperate with ICE on the matter.

“After being deported in 2013, this particular person unlawfully reentered the US and dedicated heinous crimes,” the governor’s workplace wrote in an announcement. “A GOP DA then gave him a plea deal as a substitute of pursuing second-degree homicide. [The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] will once more coordinate with ICE—as they’ve with 10,000+ inmates—to switch him earlier than launch.”

Orange County District Lawyer Todd Spitzer, who was D.A. on the time of the deadly crash, responded to the governor’s assertion with a publish on X saying: “This was not a plea deal.”

“This was a defendant who pled to the courtroom and was sentenced by a decide below California legislation, over the objection of Orange County prosecutors, who unsuccessfully argued for the utmost sentence,” Spitzer stated in his assertion.

Ortega-Anguiano was dashing whereas intoxicated on a California freeway when he crashed right into a car carrying Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin, each 19.

The teenager couple must be alive at this time, Orange County Republicans stated in response to the governor’s assertion.

“Their lives have been minimize quick in 2021 when a twice-deported unlawful immigrant, Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, killed them when he was driving 100 mph whereas drunk and excessive in Seal Seashore,” the O.C. GOP wrote on X. “The Newsom administration tried guilty O.C.’s D.A. this morning, however didn’t disclose that insurance policies Newsom and California Democrats pushed dramatically decreased penalties for these sorts of crimes.”

If California doesn’t adjust to the ICE detainer, the DOJ is ready to prosecute the case in federal courtroom, based on the White Home.

Invoice Essayli, U.S. lawyer for the Central District of California, introduced on X that he’s prosecuting Ortega-Anguiano below a federal felony immigration cost. He faces as much as 20 years in federal jail if convicted, based on Essayli.

Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi known as the deadly crash case “completely unconscionable” and known as for swift justice for the victims’ households.

Family and friends paid tribute to the couple on the time of their deaths. A GoFundMe web page described Varfolomeev as a “ray of sunshine” whereas Pepperdine College referred to Osokin as a “sensible scholar.”