Honduran authorities say they arrested man accused in fatal 2016 DUI crash in Omaha
Source: Omaha World Herald
Molly Ashford Mar 1, 2025 Updated 1 hr ago
Extradition proceedings are underway in Honduras for a man accused of fleeing the United States after his arrest for a fatal Omaha DUI crash in 2016.
Nearly a decade has passed since Eswin Mejía, now 27, allegedly rear-ended a car driven by 21-year-old Sarah Root of Council Bluffs near 33rd and L streets on Jan. 30, 2016. Accused of DUI motor vehicle homicide, Mejía posted $5,000 bail in the days after his arrest and never appeared for subsequent court hearings.
Root, who graduated college just hours before the crash, sustained life-threatening injuries and died at the hospital.
The case became a lightning rod for conversations about immigration policy: Mejía was in the country illegally, and despite local officials repeatedly notifying Immigrations and Customs Enforcement of his status and charges, ICE declined to place a detainer on him, which would have allowed the agency to take him into federal custody after he posted bail.
Michelle Root, the mother of Sarah Root, kisses Trump before she addresses the crowd. Root's daughter was killed in a car accident with an immigrant who was in the country illegally. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, spoke to a crowd at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on September 28, 2016. MATT MILLER/THE WORLD-HERALD
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