> Posted: 2:43 PM Mar 19, 2008
>
> KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An illegal immigrant's third conviction in
> Tennessee may lead to his deportation.
>
> Mario Roberto Diaz-Mourillo, a Honduran native who entered the United
> States illegally in 1998 and worked in construction in eastern
> Tennessee, was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for causing a
> head-on collision in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
>
> Diaz-Mourillo was driving the wrong way down Highway 441 between Pigeon
> Forge and Gatlinburg and when the collision permanently injured Florida
> vacationers John Richard Clevelle and Mildred Margaret Lillard.
>
> Prosecutors told a judge that Diaz-Mourillo was convicted of drunken
> driving, assaulting a police officer and weapons possession in 2004 and
> then drunken driving 10 days before last May's crash.
>
> But his immigration status was never checked or ignored.
>
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