Immigration Agents Arrest Truck Driver in Swanson Accident »

publishd July 25, 2010:

The driver in the accident that killed bicyclist Alice Swanson was picked up on an immigration charge Thursday,reported WUSA9. Marco Fuentes Flores was arrested at a trucking company in Sterling, two days after a WUSA9 story earlier in the week revealing Flores’ continued employment at the trucking company despite his questionable driving record. Records also show that Flores had been convicted of smuggling drugs, confined in federal prison and deported before returning to drive a garbage truck.

According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, the news story and interview with Ruth Rowan, the mother of Alice Swanson, provided information leading to the arrest. “I don’t have anything against immigrants. But it seems it was the only way to get him off the road,” said Rowan in an interview following the arrest. KMG Hauling, Flores’ previous and current employer, settled out-of-court with Swanson’s family without admitting liability in the death.

A ghost bike remains at 20th and R streets, the location of the accident.