A 40-year-old Mexican illegal alien with a lengthy criminal history, Hernando Garcia-Morales, has been arrested for allegedly throwing a baseball-sized rock from an overpass onto a school bus traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike in Teaneck.
The attack left an 8-year-old third-grade girl from Yeshivat Noam with a fractured skull, requiring emergency surgery.
The students were on their way back from a field trip when the rock shattered a bus window and struck the girl, causing severe injuries.
The New York Post reports, “Garcia-Morales told cops he believed the bus ‘was the devil or his enemy’ when he was arrested two days after the attack at a homeless encampment in Palisades Park, NJ.”
It is unknown when Garcia-Morales entered the United States, but he has a two-decade-long criminal history in New Jersey.
The Post reports:
In 2006 he was arrested for possession of a weapon and theft, according to DHS. And he was in trouble with the law twice in 2023, the agency revealed, but was not charged in sanctuary state.
On July 23, 2023, Garcia-Morales was arrested for burglary after allegedly entering a building in Hackensack, NJ, DHS reported. Those charges were not pursued. The following day, he was arrested again in Hackensack and charged with giving false information and attempted burglary.
Those charges were downgraded by the Municipal Court of Hackensack on Sept. 20, 2023 and Garcia-Morales walked away with only a 30-day jail sentence and $905 fine for disorderly conduct.
In the 2006 arrest in Hackensack, he was convicted on both charges and sentenced to 330 days in jail, according to DHS.
Despite his violent criminal history, Garcia-Morales was protected from deportation by NJ’s sanctuary policies.
Garcia-Morales is suspected of several other incidents involving rocks being thrown at vehicles and police officers last year.
The illegal alien has been charged with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child, and criminal mischief.
“Violently targeting a school bus full of children is extremely wicked and heinous,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Post. “Hernando Garcia-Morales should have never been in this country, let alone released after multiple arrests into New Jersey communities.
“ICE has lodged an arrest detainer against this monster, and we hope New Jersey’s sanctuary politicians will help us keep him off American streets for good,” McLaughlin added.
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