One of the men who went into the water off Boca Grande to help after a 9-year-old girl was bitten this month by a shark, Luis Alvarez, was arrested a few days later for driving without a license. He is now in the Collier County Jail facing deportation.
Alvarez, 31, of Lehigh Acres, was stopped about 1:30 a.m. on June 14 while driving on West Main Street in Immokalee without his headlights on. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office arrest report says he was driving a gray SUV with a Rhode Island tag.
When asked for his license Alvarez called up a picture of his Employment Authorization Card on his phone. He told the arresting officer in Spanish that he has been in the country for 2 1/2 years and has never had a driver’s license, the report stated…