A Staten Island mother and her 20-year-old son — who was allegedly involved in a street racing crash in New Jersey that left one person dead — were busted last week while attempting to flee the country, police said.
Alvi Limani and his mother Vilma Vneshta, 42, couldn’t outrun the law even after they trekked down to Miami to escape an aggravated manslaughter charge against Limani, who prosecutors said totaled his BMW X3 on the Garden State Parkway on June 29.
Limani and another driver behind the wheel of a BMW M5 were recklessly burning rubber southbound when Limani’s ride hit two other vehicles and rolled over multiple times around 7 p.m., the Middlesex County Prosecutors’ Office said.
Two passengers with Limani were thrown from the SUV, including Albion Hysenaj, 20, of Staten Island, who was rushed to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and pronounced dead, officials said.
The other occupant suffered serious injuries but survived.
Limani and another passenger, 19-year-old Emily Harrington, of Staten Island, fled the scene on foot, prosecutors said.
Limani and Vneshta, who looks young enough to be his sister, allegedly fled to Miami in an attempt to leave the US, but were captured by law enforcement near Miami on July 17, the prosecutor’s office said.
It’s unclear exactly where they were arrested.
The mom and son were held in Florida for three weeks before they were extradited last Wednesday to New Jersey, with TikTok footage purportedly showing the pair being led off a plane in handcuffs and leg shackles at a tristate area airport.
Booking photos show Limani in a neck brace with a battered eye and a minxy Vneshta offering a blank stare while sporting a ponytail.
Both are in custody at Middlesex County Correctional Facility ahead of detention hearings, New Jersey State Police said Monday.
Limani is facing charges of first-degree aggravated manslaughter, second-degree vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, causing death while driving a suspended license and other counts tied to the crash and escape bid, prosecutors said.
Vneshta was hit with charges of third-degree hindering.
The other driver allegedly involved in the racing, Jeter Ogando, 23, of Perth Amboy, NJ, was also slapped with vehicular homicide and related charges while Harrington was faced with third-degree hindering, obstruction and conspiracy to endanger another, prosecutors said.
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