Parked on the shoulder was a Chevrolet TrailBlazer with its flashers on. Mark Doogan, 41, was underneath, trying to get a spare tire to fix a flat, when Sanchez rammed his truck into the SUV.
"I see that my boss is laying on the ground and he is bleeding and not moving," said a witness, according to a police report. This woman and another, who worked with Doogan, had come to his aid that Sunday morning with a can of Fix-A-Flat tire sealant.
That didn't work, so Doogan tried to get his spare.
A police officer who arrived at the crash scene arrested Sanchez, smelling alcohol on his breath. Sanchez swayed and wobbled, spoke only Spanish, and his speech was slurred.
"When the defendant saw the person laying on the ground under the truck, he was pointing his finger, smiling and laughing," the police report said.
Not extraditable
Sanchez pleaded guilty March 27, 2008, to homicide by vehicle while DUI and was sentenced according to a negotiated plea deal to the mandatory-minimum of three to six years in prison.
The clerk in the courtroom, however, recorded his sentence as three to six months.
Sanchez had been in county custody since his arrest, and by the time of his guilty plea and sentencing, six months had passed. While he was in county prison, authorities realized that he was in the U.S. illegally, and immigration authorities placed a detainer on him.
On April 3, 2008, the Philadelphia Prison System released him to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
Mark Medvesky, the ICE spokesman in Philadelphia, confirmed that Sanchez was taken into ICE custody and removed from the United States later that month. Citing the agency's privacy policy, he did not say where Sanchez was sent.
