Illegal immigrant truck driver charged in death of trooper who moved home to care for mom with cancer

An amerciable migrant motortruck operator who authorities said remained successful the U.S. contempt being ordered to permission has been charged successful the decease of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper who had precocious moved location to assistance attraction for his parent during her crab treatment.

The clang is the latest successful a bid of fatal wrecks involving noncitizen commercialized motortruck drivers that person prompted the Trump medication to tighten commercialized driver's licence rules.

Michael E. Pahira Jr., 44, was conducting a commercialized conveyance inspection on Interstate 81 successful Schuylkill County connected Wednesday greeting erstwhile different semi-truck near the roadway, struck his marked patrol conveyance and the motortruck helium was inspecting earlier hitting the trooper, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Both semi-truck caught occurrence aft the crash. Pahira aboriginal died astatine a section hospital.

The driver, identified arsenic 33-year-old Michael Bon, a Haitian nationalist surviving successful Brockton, Massachusetts, was charged with homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter, reckless driving and six further lesser charges. He is being held astatine Schuylkill County Prison connected $700,000 bail. His adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for July 15.

The Department of Homeland Security has lodged an migration detainer against him.

Michael Pahira joined the Pennsylvania State Police successful 2007 and astir precocious served arsenic a Motor Carrier Enforcement Inspector, conducting commercialized conveyance inspections to assistance support the state's highways safe. (Pennsylvania State Police)

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Bon entered the United States done Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport successful July 2024 nether the Biden administration's humanitarian parole program. He aboriginal applied for Temporary Protected Status, but the exertion was denied. DHS terminated his parole successful June 2025 and ordered him to permission the country, but helium remained successful the United States.

While surviving successful Massachusetts, Bon obtained a non-domiciled commercialized driver's licence successful March 2025. The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles said helium archetypal qualified for the licence successful 2025 portion helium was authorized to enactment nether national law. It was renewed successful February 2026 earlier the Trump medication directed states to halt issuing oregon renewing non-domiciled CDLs for drivers who nary longer met national eligibility requirements.

Pahira's decease comes arsenic Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has made tightening commercialized operator licensing rules a apical precedence pursuing aggregate fatal crashes involving non-domiciled CDL holders implicit the past 2 years.

Bon entered the U.S. done the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airdrome successful 2024. (WFMZ/WTXF)

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Last year, Duffy launched a nationwide audit of states issuing non-domiciled commercialized driver's licenses aft a bid of deadly crashes, including crashes successful Wyoming, Florida and California. During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump said astatine slightest 17 fatal crashes successful 2025 that killed 30 radical progressive immigrants surviving successful the state illegally driving commercialized vehicles with CDLs.

The Department of Transportation has besides threatened to withhold national backing from states recovered to beryllium issuing licenses to drivers who are ineligible nether national law. In April, the Transportation Department withheld much than $73 cardinal successful national backing from New York, saying the authorities failed to revoke commercialized driver's licenses issued to drivers who were nary longer eligible. Duffy said the determination was intended to clasp states accountable for ensuring lone qualified and decently vetted drivers were allowed down the instrumentality of commercialized trucks.

"Secretary Duffy is laser-focused connected restoring integrity to America's trucking manufacture by ensuring motortruck drivers connected our roadways are qualified and vetted," a spokesperson for the Transportation Department antecedently told Fox News Digital. "The Department is going aft each nexus successful the concatenation to basal retired atrocious actors, fraudsters and chameleon carriers who enactment American families astatine risk."

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that wide fraud is allowing amerciable immigrants to get commercialized driver’s licenses, which helium said poses information risks. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Pahira became a trooper for the Pennsylvania State Police successful 2007.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro remembered Pahira arsenic "the precise champion of us," saying the seasoned trooper had precocious moved backmost location to assistance attraction for his parent arsenic she underwent crab treatments.

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"I spent clip with Mike's parents, Patti and Mike, his sister, Jen, and immoderate of his friends and chap troopers," Shapiro said during a property conference. "They told maine astir Mike — astir however large a antheral helium was, astir his precocious schoolhouse wrestling record, his emotion of cooking, and his committedness to caring for his parent arsenic she battles cancer. Just successful the past fewer days, helium helped her shave her caput arsenic she is going done her treatments."