{"id":62276,"date":"2025-11-27T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62276\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:26:07","slug":"man-involved-in-crash-that-killed-lake-city-woman-2-kids-was-in-country-illegally-had-been-deported-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62276\/","title":{"rendered":"Man involved in crash that killed Lake City woman, 2 kids was in country illegally, had been deported before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SUWANNEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/agjamesuthmeier\/posts\/pfbid026NozZULYBuscrUMjRgdMWqYHhcWTEnX8V5xaeJhsTGm2bkqoyV54TEECYgKVa5f5l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/agjamesuthmeier\/posts\/pfbid026NozZULYBuscrUMjRgdMWqYHhcWTEnX8V5xaeJhsTGm2bkqoyV54TEECYgKVa5f5l\">Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said on Wednesday<\/a> that the man involved in a Suwannee County crash that killed two children and a woman from Lake City was in the country illegally and had been deported before. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In a social media post, Uthmeier said that Marin Lagunas Ramirez, who also died in the crash when a third vehicle crashed into his, had cocaine on him and was likely driving drunk while in the wrong lane when the crash occurred. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe pray for the families of the innocent lives taken at the hands of those who should\u2019ve never been in our country in the first place and for the FHP Troopers who respond to these horrific and tragic incidents,\u201d the state attorney general said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Florida Highway Patrol said that the multi-vehicle crash involving three cars happened just before 10 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. 90 in Suwannee County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Overall, the crash left four people dead, including two young girls from Lake City, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The children, ages 8 and 6, were riding in a car driven by a 76-year-old woman from Lake City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">FHP said the circumstances of the crash are still not known, but the woman and the two children died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUWANNEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said on Wednesday that the man involved in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1056,28,30,29,4260,1373],"class_list":{"0":"post-62276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-fhp","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-james-uthmeier","13":"tag-suwannee-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}