Overview
- The crash, which occurred July 18, killed three people when authorities say Javiel Pena Sola struck a vehicle, two victims were pronounced dead at the scene and a third later died after being airlifted to a hospital.
- Salisbury police say Sola attempted to flee, a K-9 tracked him and officers found his vehicle in a nearby creek before charging him with three counts of felony hit-and-run involving serious injury or death.
- Sola is held at Rowan County Jail and ICE has lodged a detainer asking local authorities to keep him in custody or transfer him to federal immigration agents if he is released.
- The Department of Homeland Security publicly blamed earlier federal releases for the case and cited Sola’s prior 2015 Maryland convictions and a 2016 handover to ICE as central to its criticism.
- Reporting includes a key unresolved detail—conflicting accounts of when Sola first entered the U.S.—and the criminal investigation is ongoing while victim names remain withheld as families are notified.