Washington illegal immigrant Raul Benitez-Santana convicted in DUI crash that killed state trooper Christopher Gadd
By: Louis Casiano
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By Louis Casiano, Fox News Published June 5, 2025, 6:24 a.m. ETJurors in Washington state delivered a guilty verdict against an illegal immigrant accused of killing a state trooper last year.
Raul Benitez-Santana, 33, was found guilty of vehicular assault and vehicular homicide in connection with the death of Washington State Patrol Trooper Christopher Gadd.
Gadd, 27, was killed when his cruiser was hit by a speeding car in March 2024 at more than 100 mph.
Benitez-Santana was under the influence at the time of the crash, and admitted to drinking and smoking marijuana before driving, Fox Seattle reported.
He was swerving across the road before slamming into the rear end of Gadd's vehicle, which was parked on the shoulder.
Gadd was watching for speeding and DUI drivers, when he was struck and killed in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 5.
After his arrest, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a detainer request with Snohomish County Jail for Benitez-Santana, a Mexican citizen.
He was first encountered by immigration agents on Oct. 28, 2013, at the South Correctional Entity in Burien, Washington, after being arrested for failing to appear in court for driving on a suspended license.
He was also sentenced to 90 days behind bars, with 87 of the days suspended, in May 2013, after being convicted of possessing less than 40 grams of marijuana.
On Oct. 6, 2014, Santana was sentenced to 90 days behind bars for driving on a suspended license, and in May 2019, was arrested again for domestic violence assault.
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In the country illegally, drug convictions, failure to appear before a judge, killing law enforcement officer, domestic violence.....Democrats wet dream all in one person.
How long before they start rallying behind this bottom feeder.
Results from the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicated that the estimated number of U.S. residents ages 16 years and older who drove under the influence in the past year was:
18.5 million for alcohol (7.2% of respondents ages 16 years and older),
11.7 million for marijuana (4.5% of respondents ages 16 years and older), and
2.4 million for illicit drugs other than marijuana (0.9% of respondents ages 16 years and older). 7
Perhaps we should focus more on these issues rather than the actions of a single immigrant, because it suits the agenda of Mr. Trump
So you don't see the ties between your information and the article.
No
The focus of the statistics I provided is that of a serious driving while impaired problem across the entire country.
The focus of your article is on the immigration status of the driver involved in a single crash.
How about the fatality rate caused by those driving under the influence?. Point is, this guy had no business being on our roads to begin with. That would be one less traffic death. Baby steps.
The focus of the article is that he's a criminal that should have not been in the streets. Did you miss the part where his charges include drug convictions, failure to appear before a judge, killing law enforcement officer, domestic violence?
Are you actually trying to defend this POS?
I am not defending the criminal or the crime
I am pointing out that your story would have been just as alarming and just as tragic without the focus on immigration status.
I seem remember the right saying that member s of the leftist media used isolated cases of police misconduct or violence against minorities was a clear indication of the racial bias of all police officers.
That was incorrect.
And your use of immigration status makes it seem like you are using the death of a police officer to further your harangue against undocumented immigrants.
Sorry. Not going to leave out FACTS to make you feel better.
If here weren't here this officer would not have died because he hit him. Kind of hard to a US LEO from another country.
Does the survey include people who shouldn't be here and deaths that never should have happened?
this guy had no business being on our roads to begin with.
Agree
But that has nothing whatsoever to do with his immigration status which is the focus of your story
Sure it does. Because if he wasn't in the country illegally, his victim would still be alive. Every death caused by an illegal is preventable by deporting people who have no right to be here.
Thousands of Americans would be alive if we simply deported illegal aliens.
Are we to assume that you fail to see the problems caused by undocumented immigration and consider it racist to place any restrictions upon it?
There is no need to assume he doesn't see it. It's right there in the open that he doesn't see it.