Judge Orders Blanca Contreras Held Without Bail

Blanca Contreras, the woman accused in a hit-and-run accident that killed Waltham resident Scott Coxall in November, will not return to her native Gautemala after being ordered held without bail today in Woburn District Court, according to the Boston Herald.

A spokesperson for the District Attorney's office said last week that the DA planned to ask that Contreras be held without bail to prevent her from leaving the country. Coxall worked at the Stop & Shop Supermarket on Pleasant Street in Watertown.

In an email send to Waltham Patch today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Ross Feinstein said Contreras is in state custody.

"A judge revoked the previous bail that was set, and she will now be held in their custody on the pending criminal charges," Feinstein wrote. "ICE has re-lodged a detainer against her. After local charges are fully adjudicated, she will come back to ICE custody and be placed once again in removal proceedings."

Fienstein said Contreras is in ICE custody after being released from local custody on the criminal charges.

"ICE had taken custody of her on administrative immigration violations," he said.