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Chalfant said that there is nosentence enhancement for anunlicensed driver who causes afatal crash. However, thanks tothe passing of the Laken RileyAct, which was signed into lawby President Donald Trump onJanuary 29th, prosecutors nowhad a way to deport Juan Juan.The law allows for the deportationof "illegal immigrants whoare accused of theft, burglary,assaulting a law enforcementofficer, and any crime that causesdeath or serious bodily injury."The act is named after a Georgianursing student who was killedby a Venezuelan man who wasin the United States illegally.Juan Juan was not considereda violent offender, but becausehe was involved in a crash thatkilled someone he was noweligible for deportation underthe law. U.S. Immigration andCustoms Enforcement (ICE) tookhim into custody on February12th, initiating deportation proceedings.MAN HIDES IN CORNER BE-FORE EMERGING TO FIRE MUL-TIPLE SHOTS AT CONN. OFFI-CER, WOUNDING HIMBy Peter Yankowski,Journal InquirerWATERBURY, CN — Body camerafootage released Mondayshows a carjacking suspectshooting at a Waterbury policedetective Thursday when confrontedby the officer.The detective, Ronald Sackett,was struck in the leg andwounded during the encounter.Sackett fired at the man, lateridentified as Arian Perez-Feliciano,but did not hit him during theexchange of gunfire, the state’s70 The BLUES - MARCH ‘25Office of the Inspector Generalsaid in a news release Monday.The video, which opens withoutsound, shows Sackett runningaround the corner of abuilding and into an alleywaybetween the building and whitefence. As he comes around thecorner, a figure emerges fromthe opposite corner. A blue lightis visible outstretched in front ofhim.Sackett, a yellow Taser in hisright hand, stumbles and fallsface-down on the ground, thevideo still soundless. The soundcomes on in time to capturehim radioing that he’s been hit.He draws his gun with his righthand and fires four shots, thenradios again that he’s been hitbefore the video ends.The office also released a secondvideo captured by a homesurveillance system that stoodabove where the shooting happened,The office said the incidentbegan around 8:30 p.m. whenWaterbury police were called tothe area of 59 Waterville Streetfor an attempted carjacking.The victim reported threemasked men in a white Ford SUVarmed with a gun tried to stealhis vehicle, but that he was ableCLICK TO WATCHto drive away.About 20 minutes after thatreport, police received a secondcomplaint of another attemptedcarjacking at 109 Chase Avenue.In that instance, the victim toldpolice that a person in a whiteFord Explorer pointed a gun athim and stole his car keys.Sackett and another officer,Sergeant Steve Martin, respondedto the area of America Streetfor a vehicle alarm going off.“The report was that three subjectswere trying to break into avehicle,” the inspector general’snews release said. “Upon arrivalon America Street, police observeda white Ford Explorer. Acivilian indicated that the subjectsran toward 16 ClairmontStreet .”Police went to the locationindicated by the bystander andmoved “around the residencefrom opposite directions,” theinspector general said. Sacketttook the eastern side.As Sackett turned the corner atthe back of the home, he encounteredPerez-Feliciano, whowas armed with a gun equippedwith a laser sight, the inspectorgeneral’s office said.“The subject fired multiplerounds at Detective Sackett,

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