Calif. Issued Commercial License to Illegal Charged in Fatal Crash

The semitruck driver accused of causing an eight-vehicle, chain-reaction crash that killed three people on a Southern California highway Tuesday is a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from India who had a commercial driver’s license issued by the state.

The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued an arrest detainer — a request to hold a person for potential deportation — for Jashanpreet Singh of Yuba City, California.

Singh has been charged with three counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and one count of driving under the influence causing injury, with an enhancement for great bodily injury and multiple victims.

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