LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person who went to jail after a collision that killed a pedestrian in Las Vegas final yr was in federal courtroom on Friday to face immigration costs.
Rigoberto Osorio-Merlo, 49, is charged with one depend of deported alien present in the US. A information launch from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace indicated Osorio-Merlo is a Honduran nationwide.
Information present Osorio-Merlo was deported in 20009 and 2018, and reentered the nation illegally.
On July 22, 2024, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discovered that Osorio-Merlo had been arrested by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division officers on costs of failing to cease at scene of accident, destroy/conceal proof, and reckless driving leading to loss of life or substantial bodily hurt. A conviction on the reckless driving cost is listed on his Nevada Division of Corrections (NDOC) document.
The pedestrian was hit at about 1 a.m., and later that day, Metro police had been known as to an residence advanced close to Tropicana Avenue and Pecos Street. A woman known as police as a result of her mom and father had been having a heated argument, police stated.
Police discovered the struggle was as a result of the daddy — Osorio-Merlo — was refusing to show himself in to police. He was arrested on the scene.
On July 30, 2025, Osorio-Merlo was remanded to ICE custody from NDOC, based mostly on an immigration detainer. Osorio-Merlo has two DUI convictions, one in 2011 and a second in 2016.
A preliminary listening to is scheduled for Dec. 4 earlier than U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Elayna J. Youchah.
If convicted, Osorio-Merlo faces a most sentence of two years in jail, a one-year time period of supervised launch, a $250,000 positive, and a $100 particular evaluation.
