Boxborough police arrest illegal immigrant on his sixth DUI charge

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

A Marlborough man, who was in the country illegally and had been previously deported, was arrested Saturday morning in Boxborough on his sixth drunken driving charge, police said.

Boxborough police said that Eduardo Alementa Torres, 48, originally from Mexico, was driving a vehicle with an expired inspection sticker when an officer stopped him at about 10:45 a.m.

The officer saw an open beer bottle on the passenger seat and detected a strong odor of alcohol, police said. Torres failed a field sobriety test and submitted to a breath test, which showed that his blood alcohol level was .09 percent, according to police. The legal limit in Massachusetts is .08 percent.

Police said Torres had no identification on him and gave the officer a fake name.

He was identified when police ran his fingerprints through an automated identification system, and further investigation revealed that he had three prior drunken driving convictions in California and two in Massachusetts, police said.

Police also learned that Torres is a previously deported fugitive wanted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A spokesman for the ICE field office in Boston could not immediately be reached for comment today.

A Registry of Motor Vehicles spokesman said no information on Torres’s driving record in Massachusetts or how he obtained a license to drive in the state was available today.

Police said Torres was charged with operating under the influence of liquor, 6th offense; operating with a suspended registration; operating an unregistered vehicle; possessing an open container of liquor in a vehicle; operating with a suspended driver’s license; giving a false name to a police officer and operating without an inspection sticker.

He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Ayer District Court.