A preliminary hearing is scheduled Tuesday in California for an illegal alien deported 15 times, and now stands accused of driving drunk and fleeing the scene after an incident that seriously injured a 6-year-old boy.
KSWB reports, Constantino Banda Acosta, 38, is charged with hit-and-run causing permanent injury, DUI causing great bodily injury and driving without a license.
Federal immigration officials said the defendant has been deported from the United States at least 15 times over the past 15 years.
Banda was speeding on May 6 when he ran a stop sign and crashed his pickup truck into a Honda sedan, police and prosecutors allege. He fled but was arrested about a half-hour later, police told KSWB.
Doctors are "cautiously optimistic" that Lennox Lake, a 6-year old boy that was in the sedan Banda crashed into, will make a full recovery from his head injuries suffered in the incident.
After the preliminary hearing, a judge will decide if enough evidence was presented for Banda to stand trial.
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