DENVER — A Denver judge has raised bail to US$1 million cash for a Honduran man charged in a fatal hit-and-run to make sure he is not deported before the state case is resolved. Reyes, who was deported in 2007, pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge of illegally re-entering the United States. Acting Colorado U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer said his office doesn’t usually file criminal charges but did so in the Reyes case to get him off the street. Hill told Judge Gilman that ICE officials had suggested Denver prosecutors seek a no-bond hold for Reyes. Judge Gilman said she’d seen enough cases where defendants were not tried because they had been deported.

Source: National Post March 08, 2017 15:22 UTC