An illegal immigrant convicted of killing a young California couple in a horrific, drunken car crash could be back on the streets this summer after serving a mere fraction of his sentence, leaving the victims’ kin livid.
“It’s disgusting,” Anatoly Varfolomeev, the father of 19-year-old Anya Varfolomeev, who was burned alive with her boyfriend Nicholay Osokin inside their car in the fatal November 2021 wreck in Orange County, told Fox News.
“You have two young, unbelievable future, productive American citizens killed for nothing and that illegal immigrant who already has been deported twice is going to be released again?” the furious father told the outlet. “For what? If even he is deported, he will come back.”
Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, 43, an illegal Mexican immigrant, was drunk and driving at nearly 100 mph when he slammed into the young couple’s car on the 405 freeway, authorities said.
Now, he is eligible to be released in just three months.
With that date fast approaching, Bilal Essayli, the US attorney for the Central District of California, said Wednesday that he would step in to try to keep the convicted migrant locked up for years.
“My office has filed a felony immigration charge against this defendant,” Essayli posted on X. “He faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted for 8 USC 1326,” the federal statute charging deported illegal migrants who reenter the US.
“If the state of California will not seek the full measure of justice against this individual, the @TheJusticeDept will,” he said.
Ortega-Anguiano has been in trouble for years.
In 2022, he was convicted of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and sentenced to 10 years in prison – with a pending US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer hanging over his head.
California corrections records show that he is being held at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville but is eligible for parole in July, meaning he will have served only about a third of his sentence.
Ortega-Anguiano was deported from the US in 2016, but crossed back into the country illegally in February 2018 near Otay Mesa, California, by presenting phony documents – but was booted again four months later, an ICE spokesperson said.
He crossed the border again at some point – and was behind the wheel of the speeding car when he killed Varvolomeev and Osokin.
Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, vowed this week to fight to seize the migrant and deport him the moment he steps out of prison.
“I will work with [Homeland Security] Secretary [Kristi] Noem on this case, and I guarantee you, if they don’t honor the detainer, we’ll have ICE agents outside the facility to take custody of this individual and deport him,” Homan told Fox.
