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AND AS KCRA 3’S MIKE LUERY REPORTS, HE IS NOW BACK IN JAIL. >> HE’S NOT HERE RIGHT NOW. MIKE: ISMAEL IS NOT HERE? >> NO, HE’S NOT HERE. YOU WANT TO TALK TO HIM? CALL HIS LAWYER. MIKE: AT THE HOUSE IN YUBA CITY WHERE ISMAEL HUAZO-JARDINEZ LIVES ACCORDING TO DMV RECORDS, THIS MAN TOLD US HIS FRIEND WAS NOT HOME TODAY, BUT WE DID SPOT THE 2014 FORD F-150 PICKUP TRUCK REGISTERED IN JARDINEZ’S NAME PARKED IN HIS DRIVEWAY. THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TELLING US TODAY ISMAEL HUAZO-JARDINEZ IS AN ILLEGALLY PRESENT MEXICAN NATIONAL. THE U.S. BORDER PATROL APPREHENDED HIM IN ARIZONA AND GRANTED HIM VOLUNTARY RETURN TO MEXICO IN FEBRUARY 2011. HE ILLEGALLY RE-ENTERED AT SOME POINT THEREAFTER. JARDINEZ IS FACING THREE COUNTS OF VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER AND FELONY DUI, AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY DROVE DRUNK INTO THIS TRAILER HOME NEAR KNIGHT'S LANDING SATURDAY NIGHT, KILLING A FATHER AND MOTHER AND THEIR 10-YEAR-OLD SON. THE BOY’S 11-YEAR-OLD SISTER, MARIANA PACHECO, IS RECOVERING FROM HER INJURIES AT UC DAVIS MEDICAL CENTER IN SACRAMENTO WHERE SHE HAS BEEN UPGRADED FROM SERIOUS TO FAIR CONDITION. >> WE'RE A VERY SMALL FARM WORKING KNIT TOWN. EVERYONE IS JUST DEVASTATED BY THIS. MIKE: RESIDENTS OF THE TRAILE PARK WHERE THE CRASH OCCURRED WERE WORRIED THAT JARDINEZ WOULD FAIL TO APPEAR FOR HIS COURT ARRAIGNMENT JUNE 10. >> WE NEED HIM BEHIND BARS RIGHT NOW. MIKE: RESIDENTS HERE GOT THEIR WISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. KCRA 3 HAS LEARNED THE MAN ACCUSED OF TRASHING -- CRASHING HIS TRUCK INTO THE TRAILER PARK HAS BEEN APPREHENDED TODAY BY IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS AND IS NOW IN CUSTO

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A man suspected of driving drunk and then crashing into a Sutter County trailer, killing three people while they slept, was in the U.S. illegally and is now in custody, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday.“Ismael Huazo-Jardinez is an illegally present Mexican national,” ICE said in a statement. “The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended him in Arizona and granted him voluntary return to Mexico in February 2011. He illegally re-entered at some point thereafter.”The deadly crash happened Saturday night along Highway 113, between Knights Landing and Yuba City. The California Highway Patrol said Huazo-Jardinez, 33, was driving a Chevrolet Avalanche "at a high rate of speed" on Highway 113 when he failed to slow down for a curve north of Jennings Court just before 10 p.m. His truck left the road and crashed into the trailer that held the sleeping family, the CHP said.Jose Alberto Pacheco, his wife Ana Pacheco and their 10-year old son Angel were killed in the crash. The couple’s daughter, 11-year-old Mariana Pacheco, was seriously injured in the crash. She is getting treatment at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.Huazo-Jardinez was arrested at the scene of the crash, CHP said. He was booked into Sutter County Jail on charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and felony driving under the influence of alcohol. Huazo-Jardinez then posted his $300,000 bail and was out of jail.ICE spokesperson Paul Price said Huazo-Jardinez was arrested Tuesday."U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (San Francisco) Fugitive Operations Team members apprehended Huazo-Jardinez," Prince said in a statement. "ICE used available resources to locate and detain him. He will remain in ICE custody pending the disposition of his immigration proceedings.”Huazo-Jardinez is scheduled to be in court June 10 for arraignment. The Sutter County Sheriff’s Office said Huazo-Jardinez had a prior conviction for reckless driving but had no further details.KCRA 3 reached out to Huazo-Jardinez and his attorney for comment on the case. KCRA 3 had not gotten a response by the time this story was published.