(FOX40.COM) — Florida Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins landed at the Stockton Metropolitan Airport Thursday morning to personally escort a local truck driver back to Florida to face charges in a deadly crash.
Singh, 28, was charged this week with three counts of vehicular homicide in a San Joaquin County courtroom. Authorities said he made an illegal U-turn on a Florida highway on Aug. 12, causing a crash that killed three people.
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“Three lives were lost because he got a license when he shouldn’t have. Those people died and then he fled back to California,” said Collins. “We’re going to make sure this thug is brought to justice and faces it in Florida.”
San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas explained that Florida’s governor issued a warrant, which gave California officials the authority to hold Singh until Florida retrieved him…