A suspected drunken driver pleaded guilty Monday to causing a crash on Interstate 694 in Arden Hills last year that killed a New Brighton couple.

Charges say Luis Eduardo Tipantuna Quinchiguano’s blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit to drive in the crash that killed Curtis John O’Connor, 76, and Karin Leigh O’Connor, 74, on westbound I-694 near Snelling Avenue about 8:45 a.m. Feb. 16, 2024.

Luis Eduardo Tipantuna Quinchiguano (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

Tipantuna Quinchiguano, 32, of Minneapolis, reached an agreement with Ramsey County prosecutors, admitting to two counts of criminal vehicular homicide for driving in a grossly negligent manner.

Two counts of criminal vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol will be dismissed at his sentencing, which is scheduled for Dec. 8, according to court records. Tipantuna Quinchiguano remains jailed.

According to the criminal complaint, witnesses said that Tipantuna Quinchiguano crashed his 2008 Chevrolet Equinox into the couple’s 2018 Chevrolet Malibu and pushed the sedan into the left lane in front of a semitrailer. The semi collided with the driver’s side of the Malibu, and the couple died at the scene.

Troopers saw open bottles of alcohol in the Equinox and Tipantuna Quinchiguano, who would regain consciousness and quickly fall back to sleep, had bloodshot and glassy eyes and smelled of alcohol.

A preliminary breath test showed a 0.218 BAC on a “very weak puff of breath captured manually,” the complaint says.  The legal limit to drive in Minnesota is 0.08.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order sending the National Guard into Memphis to combat crime, constituting his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

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Trump made the announcement with Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee visiting the Oval Office, calling what’s coming a “replica of our extraordinarily successful efforts” in Washington.

That was a reference to last month, when the president deployed National Guard troops to the nation’s capital and federalized the city’s police force in a crackdown he has since argued reduced crime.

Trump said that, in addition to troops, the push in Memphis would involve officials from various federal agencies, including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Marshall’s service: “We’re sending in the big force now.”

Shortly before Trump’s announcement, the White House said on social media that the Memphis total crime rate was higher than the national average and suggested that the rate had increased since last year, bucking national trends.

That’s despite Memphis police recently reporting decreases across every major crime category in the first eight months of 2025 compared to the same period in previous years. Overall crime hit a 25-year low, while murder hit a six-year low, police said.

Despite the overall decrease, Memphis has dealt with stubborn gun violence problems for years. In 2023, the city set a record with more than 390 homicides.

Tennessee’s governor embraced the troop deployment as part of a broader law enforcement surge in Memphis. “Lee said Monday that he was “tired of crime holding the great city of Memphis back.”

Trump first suggested he’d be deploying the National Guard to Memphis on Friday, draying pushback from the Democratic leader of Memphis, which is majority Black.

“I did not ask for the National Guard, and I don’t think it’s the way to drive down crime,” Mayor Paul Young told a news conference Friday while acknowledging the city remained high on too many “bad lists.”

Speculation had centered on Chicago as Trump’s next city to send in the National Guard and other federal authorities. But the administration has faced fierce resistance from Democratic Illinois J.B. Pritzker and other local authorities.

Trump said Monday, “We’re going to be doing Chicago probably next” but also suggested that authorities would wait and not act immediately there.

“We want to save these places,” Trump said. He singled out St. Louis and Baltimore, but didn’t say either place would be getting federal forces or the National Guard.

Saber cuántas personas han sido expulsadas del país bajo esta práctica de deportaciones médicas es difícil, ya que no es una deportación formal o por medio de una organización gubernamental, y los hospitales no tienen que registrar o notificar al gobierno.

(Adi Talwar/City Limits)

Cuando se habla de deportaciones, se suele pensar en las deportaciones que hace el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de los Estados Unidos, o ICE como comúnmente se le conoce. 

Pero hay otras formas, menos conocidas y mucho menos reguladas. Se trata de las llamadas “deportaciones médicas” que realizan hospitales estadounidenses a inmigrantes que estuvieron en condiciones críticas. Estas se realizan aún cuando la persona hospitalizada está inconsciente.

Esto le ocurre a personas indocumentadas, que no tienen un seguro médico y sufren un accidente y quedan internadas, y luego, el hospital trata de deportarlas para frenar los costos.

Si bien las leyes federales del país exigen que los hospitales atiendan a cualquier persona que acuda a urgencias, independientemente de su situación migratoria o si tiene seguro médico. Una vez los hospitales dicen que la persona está estable, pueden darla de alta. 

Sin embargo, saber cuántas personas han sido expulsadas del país bajo esta práctica de deportaciones médicas es difícil, ya que no es una deportación formal o por medio de una organización gubernamental, y los hospitales no tienen que registrar o notificar al gobierno.

Uno de los pocos referentes está en una investigación de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Seton Hall y de New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, que en 2012 documentaban más de 800 casos de deportación médica realizadas o intentadas en el país entre 2006 y 2012.

Una investigación de tres años publicada el mes pasado en la revista The Nation y Type Investigations, reveló que MedEscort ha dicho haber repatriado a más de 6.000 pacientes a más de 100 países, con México, Haití y la República Dominicana entre los principales destinos.

En el único lugar donde se ha regulado parte de esta práctica es en la ciudad de Filadelfia. A finales de 2023, el Free Migration Project, otros defensores de los derechos de los inmigrantes y concejales se unieron para aprobar una ley para impedir que los hospitales deporten a los pacientes sin su consentimiento.

Así que para hablar sobre cómo funcionan las deportaciones médicas en el país, invitamos a Liset Cruz, editora auxiliar para POLITICO, quien investigó el tema para la revista The Nation y Type Investigations.

Más detalles en nuestra conversación a continuación.

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The FBI in July investigated social media accounts connected to the 16-year-old who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School last week, but did not identify the boy or take any further action before the attack, the agency confirmed Monday.

The FBI “opened an assessment into a social media account user whose identity was unknown and who was discussing the planning of a mass shooting with threats non-specific in nature,” the agency said in a statement.

“During the assessment investigation, the identity of the account user remained unknown, and thus there was no probable cause for arrest or additional law enforcement action at the federal level,” the statement continued.

Evergreen High School shooter’s online footprint reflects new wave of extremism, experts say

The FBI’s investigation, first reported by 9News, continued up to and until last week’s attack, the FBI said.

The teenager’s social media accounts showed that he was likely involved in online extremism that calls for violence as a way to destroy society, experts told The Denver Post. His accounts included a mix of white supremacy, antisemitism and a fascination with violence and mass shootings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.

They fit into a new wave of online extremism that seeks to use violence to destroy society, the experts said.

The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors online threats, tipped the FBI to 16-year-old Desmond Holly’s accounts, Oren Segal, the organization’s senior vice president of counter-extremism and intelligence, said in a statement Monday. The ADL regularly shares information with law enforcement.

“We shared profiles and activity at the time with law enforcement for actions they deemed necessary based on what was available at the time,” Segal said in the statement. “We have since learned those profiles belonged to the individual responsible for the shooting in Evergreen.”

The 16-year-old shooter, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, acted alone, Karlyn Tilley, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, said Monday. There was no second shooter during the attack, despite persistent rumors of one, she said Monday.

“We are 100% confident that he was acting alone,” she said.

Some students who were in lockdown in the school believed there were two shooters, in part because people banged on the doors to their hiding places and claimed to be police officers.

Those people banging on doors may in fact have been law enforcement and first responders, Tilley said Monday.

“Some of the law enforcement likely did pound on doors and say, ‘Hey, we are law enforcement, let us in,’” she said. “But what we try to train people on is that they do not unlock the doors for anyone, no matter what they are saying, and that eventually we will get to those doors with keys.”

An exception to keeping the doors shut would be if students inside were injured or needed immediate help, she noted. Authorities previously said much of the shooter’s attack was captured on surveillance video.

On Thursday, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said that closed, locked doors inside the school likely prevented the shooter from reaching additional victims.

The two students injured in the shooting, including 18-year-old Matthew Silverstone, remained hospitalized Monday. One student was in critical but stable condition, and the other was in serious condition.

Investigators believe the 16-year-old shooter opened fire with a revolver. Tilley on Monday declined to answer questions about how the 16-year-old accessed the gun he used in the attack or whether his parents or others could face criminal charges, citing the ongoing investigation.