EXCLUSIVE: ICE has lodged a detainer for an illegal immigrant accused of plowing into a Nashville crowd, injuring four people.
Felipe Alvarado Hernandez, 47, was arrested June 13 after allegedly driving a pickup truck onto a downtown Nashville sidewalk while attempting to turn left, striking four people, according to police. Two of the individuals needed a wheelchair.
He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, failure to give information or render aid, failure to file a report of an accident with injury or damage, financial responsibility violation with injury and driving with a revoked license. He was arrested on July 28, over a month after the incident.
A Department of Homeland Security official told Fox News Digital that ICE New Orleans has lodged a detainer for Hernandez recently after he was charged.
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The official said that one of the victims was still hospitalized at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Burn Unit as of July 29.
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"When illegal aliens break our laws and endanger our communities, ICE will work with our law enforcement partners to ensure they face the consequences of their actions. Our officers remain committed to enforcing the law professionally, protecting the public, and upholding the trust placed in us by the American people," said ERO New Orleans acting Field Office Director Scott Ladwig.
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According to DHS, Hernandez entered the country at an unknown date and location. He agreed to leave the country on Jan. 5, 2004, after Michigan's Roseville Police Department referred him to ICE following an arrest on a retail fraud charge that was later dropped.
License plate reader technology was used on the pickup truck Hernandez was driving in order to get his information.
