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A 22-year-old Mount Prospect woman has been interviewed and released without charges in connection with a hit-and-run crash Wednesday that seriously injured a man in a wheelchair, police said Thursday.
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Garrett M. Kowalski, 25, of Des Plaines, surrendered himself on April 8 to Mount Prospect police. (Mount Prospect Police Department )
MOUNT PROSPECT, IL An arrest has been made in a traffic crash that killed three people last month in Mount Prospect. Garrett M. Kowalski, 25, of the 500 block of N Third Avenue, Des Plaines, is accused of three felony counts of reckless homicide, three felony counts of aggravated driving under the influence of drugs and one felony count of possession of a controlled substance, according to a news release from the Mount Prospect Police Department.
The charges stem from the traffic crash that took place March 7 on Rand Road (Route 12) and Mt. Prospect Road. Kowalski was driving a gold Ford Escape that struck a white Honda Accord, killing Des Plaines residents Francisco Flores Rodriguez, Georgina Perez Gomez and Francisco Javier Flores Perez, according to police.
On a winter day in 2016, Carolina Roman stepped into the Consulate of Mexico in Chicago, ready to head back to her hometown in Morelos, Mexico, after seven years of living in the country without documentation. It was a difficult decision for the 33-year-old mother of three. Roman had moved to the U.S. in 2009 and worked a series of minimum wage jobs in hopes of creating more opportunities for her children. She was reluctant to throw away the life she had built for her family in Harvey, Illinois, but she felt she had no other choice.
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In 2015, Roman had discovered that her daughter, a minor, had been raped by the father of her two younger sons. Despite her shock, Roman said, she reported the crime to the Harvey Police Department right away. She then remained helpful to law enforcement throughout the investigation and prosecution process, and ultimately, after a few months, her former partner was sent to prison for the crime. It was, to say the least, a stressful time fo