An illegal immigrant was charged after a hit-and-run left a North Carolina father of two dead.
Rolbin Pacheco was charged with drunk driving and felony death by vehicle after reportedly striking and killing 36-year-old Cheston Edwards on March 29 in Princeton, North Carolina, police said. Edwards leaves behind a 9-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.
Pacheco, 35, is an illegal immigrant from Honduras and now wanted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency said.
Edwards was driving home after visiting his girlfriend late at night and was on the phone with her at the time of the crash. Pacheco was reportedly driving while drunk and going the wrong way on the highway. He was not injured in the deadly crash.
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“He needs to know that he has hurt me, deeply,” said Edwards’s mother, Mary Edwards. “He’s taken something from me that he shouldn’t have taken.”
Pacheco is being held on a $1 million bond.
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The news comes as the immigration crisis along the southern border continues. The Biden administration is facing fierce criticisms of its handling of the matter, including for Vice President Kamala Harris not yet visiting the border despite being the point person on the “root causes” of immigration.
