ICE checks out suspect in ice cream fatals

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | September 7, 2008

A man held for suspicion of vehicular homicide in the deaths of a 3-year-old child and two women is now being detained by federal immigration officials.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent a faxed a detainer on Francis Hernandez, 23, at 12:04 a.m. Saturday, indicating his U.S. citizenship is under question, according to Arapahoe county jail officials and federal authorities.

Hernandez has been arrested 16 times in five years in Colorado but apparently has never been deported, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records.

On Friday, authorities said they believed he was a U.S. citizen born in California.

Hernandez had been arrested in Denver as recently as July 18 on a traffic stop and charged with numerous crimes including resisting police, CBI records say. Had he been held on an ICE detainer at the time, he would have been jailed until his case was completed and he served any sentence, then deported, a time-consuming process.

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