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A motorist’s blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when his speeding truck plowed into a man’s car, killing the man, in Carson last week, sheriff’s deputies said Tuesday.

Quirino Mateo Antonio, 30, of Lomita, who was driving 95 mph with a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, was charged Tuesday with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and drunken driving causing death and injury.

The legal limit for driving in California is 0.08.

"He’s facing a lot of time," Carson sheriff’s traffic Investigator Jon Tedder said.

The Jan. 8 crash killed Juan Gabriel Ontiveros, a 32-year-old husband and father of four who was on his way home from his trucking job in Wilmington at 3:30 a.m. Investigators said Antonio was at the wheel of a Toyota Tacoma that hit Ontiveros’ 1987 Cadillac Coupe Deville broadside at Sepulveda Boulevard and Wilmington Avenue.

Investigators do not know if Antonio ran a red light. The intersection does not have red-light cameras, which would have taken photographs as the crash occurred.

Deputies know Antonio’s speed because his truck’s speedometer froze when it hit the passenger side of Ontiveros’ car without braking, Tedder said.

The truck, heading west on Sepulveda, barreled through the Cadillac, which was traveling north on Wilmington.

The collision completely knocked the Cadillac’s body off the frame, bending it into a U shape.

"The force of the collision was so great, Ontiveros’ body hitting the side door broke the door latches and the door bolts," Tedder said.
Ontiveros, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the car into the street. He landed 20 feet away.

Had he been wearing the seat belt, Ontiveros would have been burned because the Cadillac burst into flames, Tedder said.

Antonio, who was hospitalized along with his passenger, had attended a party earlier in the evening. A case of beer was also found in his truck.

Some bottles were opened and some were unopened. Many shattered in the crash, Tedder said.

"He was confused as to where he was," Tedder said. "He thought he was in Harbor City. He thought he was at Sepulveda and Vermont instead of Sepulveda and Wilmington."

Antonio works as banquet manager at the Bluewater Grill in Redondo Beach. A manager declined to comment.

Antonio pleaded not guilty Tuesday at his arraignment at the Compton courthouse. Commissioner Ron Slick ordered him held on $500,000 bail.

His attorney, Philip DeLuca, did not return a message.

State Department of Motor Vehicles records show the Mexican national had obtained a driver’s license in February 2003, but state authorities later deemed it invalid. Records show officials had made a request that he show proof of his Social Security number to validate the license.

That request remained current Tuesday.

In August 2003, Antonio was deported from the United States after he was detained in San Ysidro and determined to be an illegal immigrant, authorities said.

Antonio was ordered to leave the country and told he could not return legally for five years.

Ontiveros’ family held his funeral Monday, calling for an ambulance when his mother fainted three times during the service, said his brother-in-law, Efren Hernandez.

Ontiveros and his wife, Juanita, had been married for 17 years. Together, they had four children – a 16-year-old girl and boys ages 14, 13 and 8.

They bought a two-bedroom home a year ago. He worked two trucking jobs to pay the mortgage.

Hernandez said his sister has accepted the fact that she will raise the children alone.

"My brother-in-law wanted them to have a profession," Hernandez said. "She is going to try to keep his promise to her kids to help them go to college. She has accepted he is dead. It’s still painful." http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_7983087

this is very sad… if they want better lives for them and there families why not do it the right way? the legal way? and if you do it illegaly why would they want to go by the books and not bring attention to themselves by comitting crimes that could cause there families hardship and them to be deported? i don’t get it…

Identify any examples of fallacies in the following passages. Tell why you think these are fallacies, and identify which category they belong in, if they fit any category we’ve described.

1. Letter to the editor: “I would like to express my feelings on the recent conflict between county supervisor Blanche Wilder and Murdock County Sheriff Al Peters over the county budget.
“I have listened to sheriffs’ radio broadcasts. Many times there have
been dangerous and life-threatening situations when the sheriff’s deputies’ quickest possible arrival time is 20 to 30 minutes. This is to me very frightening. “Now supervisor Wilder wants to cut two officers from the Sheriff’s Department. This proposal I find ridiculous. Does she really think that Sheriff Peters can run his department with no officers? How anyone can think that a county as large as Murdock can get by with no police is beyond me. I feel this proposal would be very detrimental to the safety and protection of this county’s residents.”

2. Letter to the editor: “Andrea Keene’s selective morality is once again
showing through in her July 15 letter. This time she expresses her abhorrence of abortion. But how we see only what we choose to see! I wonder if any of the anti-abortionists have considered the widespread use of fertility drugs as the moral equivalent of abortion, and, if they have, why they haven’t come out against them, too. The use of these drugs frequently results in multiple births, which leads to the death of one of the infants, often after an agonizing struggle for survival. According to the rules of the pro-lifers, isn’t this murder?”
— North-State Record

3. In one of her columns, Abigail Van Buren printed the letter of “I’d rather be a widow.” The letter writer, a divorcée, complained about widows who said they had a hard time coping. Far better, she wrote, to be a widow than to be a divorcée, who are all “rejects” who have been “publicly dumped” and are avoided “like they have leprosy.” Abby recognized the pseudoreasoning for what it was, though she did not call it by our name. What is our name for it?

5. Letter to the editor: “Once again the Park Commission is considering closing North Park Drive for the sake of a few joggers and bicyclists. These so-called fitness enthusiasts would evidently have us give up to them for their own private use every last square inch of Walnut Grove. Then anytime anyone wanted a picnic, he would have to park at the edge of the park and carry everything in—ice chests, chairs, maybe even grandma. I certainly hope the Commission keeps the entire park open for everyone to use.”

6. “Some Christian—and other—groups are protesting against the placing, on federal property near the White House, of a set of plastic figurines representing a devout Jewish family in ancient Judaea. The protestors would of course deny that they are driven by any anti-Semitic motivation. Still, we wonder: Would they raise the same objections (of unconstitutionality, etc.) if the scene depicted a modern, secularized Gentile family?”
— National Review

8. From a letter to the editor: “The counties of Michigan clearly need the ability to raise additional sources of revenue, not only to meet the
demands of growth but also to maintain existing levels of service. For
without these sources those demands will not be met, and it will be impossible to maintain services even at present levels.”

9. In February 1992, a representative of the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico gave a radio interview (broadcast on National Public Radio) in which he said that the Church was against the use of condoms. Even though the rate of AIDS infection in Puerto Rico is much higher than on the U.S. mainland, the spokesman said that the Church could not support the use of condoms because they are not absolutely reliable in preventing the spread of the disease. “If you could prove that condoms were absolutely dependable in preventing a person from contracting AIDS, then the Church could support their use.”

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With love in Christ.

EDINBURG — Federal marshals arrested a man Wednesday accused of kidnapping and beating his ex-girlfriend to death with a stone.

Jose Juan Sanchez, 33, had evaded authorities since the body of Laura Isabel Reyes was found in a field near Hargill on July 13.

The U.S. Marshals Service located Sanchez outside a relative’s house in Cicero, Ill., near Chicago, where he was arrested without incident, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said.

The search for Sanchez led authorities to Houston, Dallas, across Indiana and finally to Greater Chicago, where a cross-check of his relatives’ phone records led authorities to the fugitive.

Sheriff’s deputies are on their way to interrogate him in Illinois, where he awaits a hearing on his extradition to the Rio Grande Valley. Authorities plan to arraign him on one count of capital murder once he is brought back here.

Deputies believe Sanchez kidnapped Reyes, 35, from the McAllen baseball park on North Ware Road on July 12. She managed to dial 9-1-1 before Sanchez and an alleged accomplice, Ernesto Castillo Rodriguez, tied her up and loaded her in the back of her Dodge Caravan.

On the recording of that phone call, Reyes can be heard pleading for her life and asking Sanchez not to kill her, the sheriff said. A male voice on the recording tells someone to stay down. The phone cuts out about four minutes into the call.

McAllen police have said attempts to contact the 9-1-1 caller after the phone conversation ended were unsuccessful.

Investigators said Castillo and Sanchez took the woman to a field near the intersection of M. Davila Road and Farm-to-Market Road 490 near Hargill, where she was beaten to death with a large stone.

Castillo, a Mexican national and illegal immigrant living in Mission, confessed to helping with the kidnapping and slaying, court records state. He told investigators he acted as a lookout for Sanchez and restrained the woman.
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/slaying-100246-arrest-suspected.html

More Americans are killed by illegal aliens than were in Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan.