Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Yet another tragedy caused by an illegal alien:

Posted on Tue, Nov. 22, 2005
Man held on $1.6 million bond in fatal wreck

MELISSA MANWARE AND CLEVE WOOTSONmmanware@charlotteobserver.com
cwootson@charlotteobserver.com

A man charged in the head-on collision that killed a UNC Charlotte student last week is being held on a $1.6 million bond.
Judge Hugh Lewis set the bond today, after a prosecutor told him Jorge Humberto Hernandez-Soto is an illegal immigrant who has been removed from the United States 17 times and twice convicted of drunk driving.
"He keeps coming back to our country and driving while impaired," Mecklenburg Assistant District Attorney Beth Freeman said.
Hernandez-Soto is charged with second-degree murder, driving while impaired and involuntary manslaughter. He is being held in the Mecklenburg County jail.
The N.C. Highway Patrol says Hernandez-Soto was driving a Ford Expedition north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 485 going faster than 100 mph when it crashed into a Nissan 350Z driven by 18-year-old Min Chang.
Chang, who was headed to his home in Mint Hill, died in the wreck. Hernandez-Soto was hospitalized with a broken leg and arrested after his release. He appeared in court today in a wheelchair.