A state judge reduced the bail for an illegal immigrant accused of killing a Washington state trooper in a crash earlier this year from $1 million to $100,000 – a 90 percent slash.
Raul Benitez Santana, 32, currently remains at the Snohomish County Jail facing charges of vehicular assault and vehicular homicide involving alcohol or drugs.
These charges stem from the March death of 27-year-old Washington State Patrol Trooper Christopher M. Gadd, Fox News reported.
Santana is alleged to have been speeding in an SUV, veering off southbound I-5 near Marysville, then striking and killing Gadd as he sat in his parked patrol vehicle.
The tragic incident unfolded just before 3 am.
A report from FOX13 Seattle says court documents revealed Santana had “bloodshot eyes” and admitted to police he had been drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana before driving.
An ICE official confirmed Santana, a Mexican citizen, was in the U.S. unlawfully, having entered the country at an unspecified date and time.
Fox reported that following Santana’s arrest, ICE placed an immigration detainer on him.
Santana’s defense team fear that if he posts bail, federal authorities might arrest and deport him.
Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Richard Okrent, however, decided to lower Santana’s bail following arguments from the illegal immigrant’s defense attorneys advocating for his release.
Gadd’s widow strongly opposed Santana’s release in a letter to the judge.
“Reducing bail would not only undermine the severity of the crime but also inflict further anguish and distress upon me, our child, and the rest of our family,” she wrote.
News of Gadd’s death and the subsequent reduced bail for Santana, as was evident by online jail records Wednesday, sparked a firestorm on social media.
“Say his name,” End Wokeness wrote on X. “ … He was married and the dad of a 2 year old girl.”
Another user replied to the post, writing, “Christopher Gadd would be alive today if the US Government did its job and secured our border.”
“How many more innocent Americans will be lost because Biden refuses to do his primary job of keeping us safe from foreign invaders?” he asked.
Other accounts echoed this sentiment, drawing attention to the Southern Border crisis.
“Washington State Police Officer is the latest victim of the illegal immigrant crime wave – patrol car struck outside seattle and killed by ‘Raul Benitez Santana… a mexican citizen who entered the US illegally’ and had previously been arrested for driving ‘with a suspended license,’” one account shared.
“Every one of these deaths is preventable,” they added.
Resist the Mainstream reported last month on an illegal immigrant who killed an adviser to Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat.
18-year-old Elmer Rueda-Linares was involved in a two-vehicle crash on April 6, resulting in the death of Kurt Englehart.
Masto notably gaslighted Americans two days before Rueda-Linares entered the U.S. illegally by stating there are “no open borders.”
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