STOCKTON, Calif. — Florida Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins held a press conference Thursday afternoon at Stockton Metropolitan Airport, where took custody of Harjinder Singh, the undocumented truck driver accused of causing a deadly crash on the Florida Turnpike.
“What I want you to know is that this is not business as usual,” Collins said. “This isn’t politics as usual.”
Collins, who said he did not identify as a politician, but as a “God-fearing, gun-loving, freedom defending, one-legged, retired Green Beret,” noted that he didn’t want to be in California, because the reason he was there was due to the terrible tragedy that happened in Florida.
Three Lives Lost
The extradition mission follows a directive from Governor Ron DeSantis, who called the August 12 deadly crash “a total disaster” and vowed to “throw the book at him.” Singh allegedly made an illegal U-turn in a restricted highway zone near Fort Pierce, triggering a collision that killed three South Florida residents. Singh now faces three counts of vehicular homicide and is being held on an ICE detainer in California…