Jose Carranza, an illegal immigrant from Peru, was indicted twice this year: 31 counts surrounding the alleged sexual assault of a child, and nine stemming from a bar fight.
But federal immigration officials hadn't heard of him until Thursday, when he was charged in the execution-style shooting deaths of three Newark college students.
Carranza had been free on $5,000 bail when the shootings occurred, but immigration officials say he may never have returned to the streets had local authorities contacted them after his first felony arrest in October 2006. 
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