Overview

• ICE confirmed that the 16-year-old undocumented Colombian and his relatives were arrested on May 20 and will remain in custody pending an immigration hearing.
• Last July in Aurora, Colorado, the teenager drove around 90 mph in an uninsured vehicle with other minors before T-boning Kaitlyn Weaver’s car and killing the 24-year-old rehab center worker.
• Under a plea deal approved by Arapahoe County prosecutors, he received probation and community service rather than a prison term for vehicular homicide.
• ICE’s Denver field office publicly criticized the district attorney’s office for the lenient sentence granted to a criminal immigrant convicted of reckless driving resulting in death.
• According to ICE, the teen’s pending asylum application does not prevent his detention or removal proceedings under federal immigration law.