U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed a hold on a native of Mexico who was arrested after he was caught behind the wheel despite previous drunk driving convictions.
An officer spotted a black 2019 Dodge pickup truck without a working tag light near the intersection of Main and West Clarke streets around 11:15 a.m. Sunday, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. Due to this, he stopped the driver, 40-year-old Isauro Jose Perez-Castro, and asked for his license.
Perez-Castro instead handed over a Mexican voter ID card. When asked again about a driver’s license, he stated his was “recently reinstated.” However, a check of his driving history revealed his license had expired since Feb. 23, 2007, the report said.
Additionally, he had twice been arrested for driving under the influence in 2014 and 2022 in Orange County. He was charged with driving while his license was suspended seven times, including in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014, in counties such as Volusia and Orange. Other charges included failures to appear in 2010, a refusal to submit to DUI testing in 2014 and being labeled a habitual traffic offender in 2015, the report said…