Driver charged in migrants' deaths
April 18, 2007
LA Times
SALT LAKE CITY — The driver of a sport utility vehicle that rolled over and killed eight of 14 passengers was charged Tuesday with transporting illegal immigrants resulting in death. Survivors told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers that Rigoberto Salas-Lopez was fondling a woman while driving, contradicting the driver's claim that he was trying to avoid an animal when the vehicle went off the road and rolled at least five times early Monday.
SALT LAKE CITY — The driver of a sport utility vehicle that rolled over and killed eight of 14 passengers was charged Tuesday with transporting illegal immigrants resulting in death. Survivors told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers that Rigoberto Salas-Lopez was fondling a woman while driving, contradicting the driver's claim that he was trying to avoid an animal when the vehicle went off the road and rolled at least five times early Monday.
Salas-Lopez, 30, was arrested after fleeing into the desert, police said.
Authorities said Salas-Lopez is from Guatemala, as were most of the passengers, and the rest were from Mexico...
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