The United States Department of Homeland Security announced on July 21 that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer for Andrii Dmyterko, an alien from Ukraine without legal status, who was convicted for causing a fatal truck crash that killed two people in Alabama.
According to local reporting, the crash occurred on May 6, 2025, in Thomasville, Alabama. Dmyterko was reportedly distracted by his cell phone while driving a semi-truck through an intersection and struck multiple vehicles. Two people were pronounced dead at the scene, and a third victim was rescued from the wreckage by bystanders.
Dmyterko was arrested following the incident and later pleaded guilty to two counts of criminally negligent homicide. He received a sentence of two years in Clarke County Jail.
Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said, “This alien from Ukraine was paroled into our country by the Biden Administration. Now, because of his reckless driving behind the wheel of a semi-truck, two people are dead. He has pleaded guilty to two counts of criminally negligent homicide. ICE has lodged a detainer asking Alabama officials to cooperate with us and turn him over when his sentence is complete so that we can remove him from our country.”
Dmyterko entered the United States under the Biden Administration’s humanitarian parole program for Ukraine in 2024 and subsequently applied for—and received—a work visa that same year.