Suspect in Colts player’s death faces immigration charge
Federal authorities have filed an immigration charge against a Guatemalan man suspected in a drunken-driving crash that killed Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and another man in Indiana. The immigration charge was announced late Tuesday, ahead of an expected announcement on Wednesday on possible state charges against 37-year-old Manuel Orrego-Savala. He was arrested after the crash Sunday night. He's twice been deported and was living illegally in the U.S. at the time of the crash.
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Orrego-Savala, 37, was arrested following the crash along
Orrego-Savala was deported in 2007 and 2009, and was again living illegally in the
He was charged in Tuesday's federal criminal complaint with illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien. He faces up to 10 years in prison on the immigration charge, which the
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A spokesman for Jackson's family has said his relatives are devastated and planned no response to Trump's tweets about the crash and the suspect's immigration status.
"The family is in shock, as you can imagine. This obviously happened so unexpectedly," Atlanta attorney
Investigators said they believe Orrego-Savala was intoxicated at the time of the Indiana crash.
Orrego-Savala had a 2005 conviction for driving under the influence in
In the 2005 case, he pleaded no contest to two separate drunken-driving offenses and was given a brief jail sentence, San Mateo County District Attorney
Orrego-Savala remains jailed in
He appeared Tuesday before a judge who advised him of his rights. Indianapolis television station WRTV reported that Orrego-Savala told the judge through an interpreter: "I wasn't driving the car. I don't know why I am here."
A police news release did not mention the presence of anyone else in the pickup truck.
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