Cases of illegal re-entry after deportation still on the rise in Oklahoma City court
The stakes were high for a Honduran man as he sat in a patrol car after being pulled over for drunken driving.
Hector Mercado-Castellanos, 42, was in the United States illegally. He had returned to Oklahoma City after being deported in 2004 for three drunken driving convictions and attempting to elude a police officer.
His son, Hector Escalante, 18, ambushed Oklahoma City police officer Katie Lawson after she re...
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