Killer Illegals on the Roads
Speed, alcohol thought to be factors in fatal Merrillville crash
Hispanic DWIs Rooted in Immigrants' Culture
Six Reasons. Do You Need More?
By Brenda Walker
>>"There's more preventable carnage to report on America's roads, due to
America's open borders: in this case a drunk-driving illegal alien living
in Indiana, Mario Cardena, killed three innocent citizens (and himself) in
a horrific crash that left three twisted vehicles indicating the force of
the impact.
Friends and family mourned the death of a prominent attorney, a young
couple soon to be married and a Mexican immigrant who had long struggled
with a drinking problem — all four of them killed in three-car collision
Wednesday near the border of Merrillville and Winfield.
As Hough and Weiss pulled into the intersection of Randolph and 101st
Avenue, Mario Cadena sped west, past a stop sign and into Hough’s Ford
Explorer, driving the truck into Weiss’ Mustang. No one emerged alive
from the twisted wreckage.
Merrillville police declined comment on the crash but said high speed was
a factor. The Lake County coroner will not have results of blood
toxicology reports for several days. Police sources say they believe
Cadena had been drinking, and a beer bottle was on the front seat of his
ruined Jeep Cherokee at the police impound yard.
Stephen Hough, 26, and Amy Bartelmey, 25, had planned to be married soon,
and he was about to graduate from Purdue with a degree in public
relations. She had a two-year-old son from a previous relationship.
Another victim in a separate vehicle was a well known local attorney Garry
Weiss, 53, who is survived by his wife Cindy and two teenage children:
Speed, Alcohol Factors In Collision That Killed Four.
"He was the love of my life. Everybody loves him. He just ... he was
perfect. No, not always perfect, but a wonderful husband, wonderful
father, wonderful lawyer, wonderful friend, son, brother ... there's not
enough to be said about him," his wife, Cindy Weiss, said. "I love him and
I miss him."
The killer is also dead, so there will be no trial and public exposure of
his previous arrests -- he is another criminal foreigner who should have
been earlier punished and then deported to his legal home, an act of
justice that would have saved his own and three other lives. He had
previously been arrested for drunk driving, so this crime was not
unforseeable: Driver in fatality had long history.
Cadena was charged with driving without ever having been issued a license
and driving while intoxicated after a 2001 arrest by Lake County Sheriff's
police.
A plea deal with prosecutors reduced the drunken driving charge to
reckless driving, and Cadena was given a suspended jail sentence of 180
days and paid $480 in fees and fines.
In October 2003, Cadena was pulled over by State Police for unsafe lane
movement and driving while intoxicated with a blood-alcohol level above
0.15 percent -- nearly double the 0.08 percent required for a drunken
driving charge. Cadena again reached a plea deal with prosecutors and
received a suspended sentence of one year by Judge Julie Cantrell.
Cantrell also saw Cadena in court in June 2006, when he was charged with
driving 77 miles per hour in a 55-mile-per hour zone, failure to register
his vehicle and driving without a license.
It's a situation that is painfully similar to many others. Had Judge
Cantrell and the rest of the justice system not been weak in dealing with
an obviously dangerous man, this terrible crime could have been
prevented."<<
News Source: Brenda Walker
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