An undocumented immigrant had been arrested and deported multiple times before allegedly killing six people in a drunk driving crash in California, ICE said.
A man going by Norberto Celerino, 53, faces six murder counts after he drunkenly crashed his packed car into a tree last month, Napa County prosecutors say.
But US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Celerino — who has gone by many aliases — is actually 49-year-old Beto Cerillo-Bialva, who has been arrested and deported multiple times.
“Beto Cerillo-Bialva, 49, is a criminal alien from Mexico who first entered the United States in 1995. Since his first illegal entry, he has been arrested several times for possession of cocaine, multiple DUIs, and removed multiple times from the United States,” an ICE spokesperson told The Post.
The crash left Cerillo-Bialva and one other passenger critically injured, authorities said.
Cerillo-Bialva and all of the passengers were farmworkers, FOX 2 reported.
ICE blamed the tragedy on California’s longstanding sanctuary laws that block local law enforcement from cooperating with federal authorities and help even repeat deportees fly under the radar.
“[Cerillo’s] continued disregard for the laws within the United States and California’s sanctuary laws has led to this tragic incident. Sanctuary laws continue to place the American public in danger and only protect the criminal aliens,” the ICE spokesperson said.
Cerillo-Bialva also faces six counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in addition to the murder raps.
The victims were Pedro Lopez Gomez, 57, Fernando Silverio, 34, Demetrio Celerino Francisco, 39, Beymar Reynosa Rodriguez, 32, Aaron Ruiz, 39, and Loreto Ricardo Hernandez, 42, authorities said.
