DHS says illegal immigrant accused of throwing rock at New Jersey school bus, injuring young girl

A New Jersey antheral accused of injuring a young miss by throwing a baseball-sized stone astatine a schoolhouse autobus is successful the state illegally, according to national officials.

Hernando Garcia-Morales, 40, of Palisades Park, faces aggregate charges successful transportation with a Jan. 7 centrifugal conveyance incidental connected the northbound New Jersey Turnpike, the New Jersey State Police said.

The third-grade children were traveling backmost to Yeshivat Noam Jewish time schoolhouse successful Paramus aft a people travel to the Liberty Science Center erstwhile a large stone smashed done the autobus window, the schoolhouse antecedently told Fox News Digital. 

An 8-year-old miss suffered a skull fracture aft being struck by the stone and was forced to person surgery, officials said.

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A New Jersey miss was injured erstwhile a stone was thrown done the model of a schoolhouse autobus returning from a tract trip, authorities said.  (New Jersey State Police)

Garcia-Morales was arrested connected Jan. 9 by New Jersey Turnpike State Police for aggravated assault, resisting arrest and possession of a weapon. The Bogota Police Department also charged him with aggravated assault, transgression trespassing defiant, transgression trespassing peering, and transgression mischief harm property. 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Saturday that U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) has issued an apprehension detainer against Hernando Garcia-Morales, claiming helium is simply a transgression amerciable migrant from Mexico.  

DHS told Fox News Digital that Garcia-Morales has a past of unit and is successful the state illegally, but said helium has not been deported due to the fact that of New Jersey’s sanctuary migration policies.

"Violently targeting a schoolhouse autobus afloat of children is highly wicked and heinous," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said successful a statement. "Hernando Garcia-Morales should person ne'er been successful this country, fto unsocial released aft aggregate arrests into New Jersey communities."

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Hernando Garcia-Morales, a New Jersey antheral accused of throwing a stone astatine a schoolhouse autobus and injuring an 8-year-old girl, is successful the state illegally, according to DHS. (New Jersey State Police; Department of Homeland Security)

"ICE has lodged an apprehension detainer against this monster, and we anticipation New Jersey’s sanctuary politicians volition assistance america support him disconnected American streets for good," McLaughlin added.

DHS said it does not cognize erstwhile oregon wherever Garcia-Morales illegally entered the country, but noted helium has a transgression past spanning 2 decades.

He was arrested successful 2006 for possession of a limb and theft, according to The New York Post, and was arrested for burglary successful 2023 aft allegedly entering a gathering successful Hackensack, New Jersey. Those charges were not pursued, the outlet reported, but Garcia-Morales was arrested the adjacent time successful Hackensack and charged with giving mendacious accusation and attempted burglary.

Authorities said Hernando Garcia-Morales faces aggregate charges aft a stone smashed done a schoolhouse autobus model connected the New Jersey Turnpike. ( Department of Homeland Security)

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The Municipal Court of Hackensack downgraded the charges connected Sept. 20, 2023, leaving Garcia-Morales with a 30-day jailhouse condemnation and a $905 good for disorderly conduct.

Authorities told Yeshivat Noam Jewish time schoolhouse officials that Garcia-Morales confessed to the circumstantial incidental connected the New Jersey Turnpike, arsenic good arsenic respective different rock-throwing incidents successful the area, the schoolhouse said.

A superior tribunal justice ruled connected Jan. 16 that Garcia-Morales would stay successful Bergen County jailhouse until the lawsuit is resolved, according to The Post.

The Justice Department announced past twelvemonth it was suing 4 New Jersey cities, accusing section officials of obstructing national instrumentality and undermining efforts to enforce migration laws done their sanctuary metropolis policies.

Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano contributed to this report.