Man jailed for immigrant’s death

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20101215/NEWS97/712169867#man-jailed-for-immigrant-146-s-death

Published Wednesday December 15, 2010

DES MOINES — A Texas man convicted of transporting illegal immigrants to Iowa, which resulted in the death one of them in a van crash, has been sentenced to over three years in prison.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Tuesday said Javier Garcia Alvarez of Dallas was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court to 40 months in prison.

Prosecutors say Alvarez, an illegal immigrant, was transporting 10 other illegal immigrants in a van from Arizona to Iowa. The van was struck broadside when he ran a stop sign in rural Marshall County in central Iowa on Feb. 26. The crash killed Noemi Celestine De Jesus.

Alvarez was convicted in July. — AP