Milena Henao now faces deportation to her native Colombia for the hit-and-run death of George Azarian as he tried to cross Ocean Avenue on Dec. 31, 2006, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
Henao was sentenced to two concurrent one-year sentences, which means she would have been free to go since she's been in jail since her arrest on Jan. 18, 2008 in New York. However, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has said not so fast there; she is now being held without bail pending a hearing on her immigration status.
There were no witnesses to Azarian's hit-and-run death, but State Police investigators were able to enhance video from a nearby surveillance camera enough to identify the vehicle's make, model and year. Detectives then applied shoe leather to the case: They went around the area interviewing people who owned that particular model. Ironically, Henao was present during one of these interviews; she fled right after the detectives left.
The moment before George Azarian died:
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Immigration Status:Confirmed
By plt3012
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 8:15pm
As I previously inquired, this woman's status, was and is, that she is an illegal alien. The fact is Mr. Azarian would not have been killed and would probably be alive today if not for this criminal's presence in our country. The PCers can lambast me forever. This man is dead and she's facing two years in jail. Sad.
Per Request
By neilv
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 10:02pm
plt3012 said:
The death is tragic. And I understand what you're saying. However, people are killed in auto accidents by full-fledged citizens every day, and often there's a huge element of randomness: many millions of people doing the same imperfect driving, and sometimes one of them is involved in the worst, due to a number of elements coming together effectively at random.
There are valid concerns we should have about illegal immigration, but "Once, one of the people involved in an auto accident was an illegal immigrant, so that's a reason illegal immigrants are bad" does not sound to me like a valid argument. (That's not quite what you said, but what you said does not address the randomness involved.)
If you wanted to generalize from this one incident to criticize illegal immigration, I think it would be easier to argue that the driver fleeing the scene *might* reflect a problem related to illegal immigration.
If MA enforced traffic laws
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 10:03pm
If the cops in MA were required to actually systematically enforce traffic laws, she would likely have been picked up for a lesser infraction and sent packing long before she had a chance to kill somebody with her poor driving.
It could be said that if enforcement were more thorough and dependable, there would be fewer people hit by citizens too - particularly legal residents and citizens who should not be driving due to impairments.
Culture
By neilv
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 10:47pm
I'm not sure that systematically enforcing traffic laws is tractable without some truly scary technological mechanism.
One of the fundamental problems is cultural, to us Bostonians in general, not to any immigrant group: vast numbers of people drive *irresponsibly* and *illegally*.
Everyone knows that up to four cars go through a red light, people accelerate on yellow or even red, people whip around corners through crosswalks one-handed while talking on phone, people can't be bothered to signal for turns, people speed, etc. It's commonplace and socially acceptable, not the exception.
When it comes to typical driving: "Massholes -- it's not just a catchy-sounding name!" :)
I'd like to see more enforcement of traffic laws, and certainly there are individuals who simply shouldn't be driving (due either to impairment or need for remedial training), but I believe the biggest problem is widespread insufficient respect for laws and personal responsibility.
We can fix that.
Yawn. Get a mop.
By Spatch
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 8:56am
The Herald is leaking again.
Illegal "Rundown"
By Rellie
Wed, 02/04/2009 - 4:46pm
Ahhh, anyone can have an accident ... but just "anyone" might not have left George to die, alone, in the street as though he were an animal. She didn't just panic ... she stopped, got out of the car, picked up the pieces of her vehicle that fell of, and sped away ... leaving him ... not even a 911 call was placed. Sorry folks, they could send her to Antartica for as far as I'm concerned... along with the people in Winthrop who harbored her, got her a car, covered the insurance. There is NO aspect of this story that is good ... and a kind and gentle man was killed and the PC'ers are worried about her being deported.
That Is Awful
By neilv
Wed, 02/04/2009 - 5:27pm
That is awful. However, I was responding to what sounded like an attempt to tie the accident itself to the fact of her being an illegal immigrant.
As I said before, if you want to tie fleeing the scene to the fact of her being an illegal immigrant, you might have something. There's certainly a huge disincentive for an illegal immigrant to face any kind of criminal charge, atop the implications a charge has for a citizen. That's a societal problem. It does not logically follow, however, that all the people who are currently here as illegal immigrants are at fault for that societal problem, contrary to what some people would suggest.
The deeper concern to society
By Lanny Budd
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 7:56am
The fundamental question that our society should be asking itself about this case is: Why are we deporting hot chicks?
We're going to work out an exchange.
By Spatch
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 8:34am
Trade them bad drivers for good ones.
The exchange rate might not work in our favor, though.
Especially ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 9:06am
hot chicks that avoid contact with the authorities no matter what?
:-p