(El Paso Times neglects to mention De Leon is a Mexican illegal alien)

Via El Paso Times: 

EL PASO – The California man accused of throwing his 2-year-old son out of a moving car on an El Paso road had a record of "habitual" traffic offenses, according to a report in the Marin (Calif.) Independent Journal.

Alfonso Israel De Leon, 34, of San Rafael, Calif., allegedly threw his son out of his car Dec. 20 in the 6600 block of Gateway West just before it crashed into a guardrail.

A police complaint affidavit filed after De Leon’s arrest quotes De Leon as saying the devil "told him to throw out everything he did not need."

The boy suffered minor injuries, police said. A 4-year-old girl was also in the car at the time. Both children are in state custody, police said.

According to the Marin Independent Journal, De Leon has several aliases, including Alfonso Israel De Leon Rodas and Alfonso Israel Rodas.

De Leon was on probation for drunken driving with five prior DUI convictions, and his license is suspended until December 2009, under the name Alfonso Israel Rodas.

When contacted by the newspaper, Marin County Chief Deputy District Attorney Kathryn Mitchell said her office was trying to confirm through a fingerprint comparison that Rodas and De Leon are the same person.

Court documents show Rodas and De Leon have matching Social Security numbers and similar birth dates, according to the newspaper report. Rodas’ birth date in Marin County court records is listed as Aug. 6, 1976. According to El Paso jail records, De Leon’s birth date is Aug. 6, 1974.

According to court documents obtained by the Independent Journal, De Leon was on probation for a 2006 incident in which a San Rafael police officer saw him tailgating a tow truck and honking his horn excessively.

On Dec. 15, 2006, De Leon was sentenced to 14 months in jail after pleading guilty to four DUI counts and three counts involving driving without a valid license or proof of insurance. A three-year prison sentence was stayed pending completion of five years of probation, the newspaper report states.

According to the newspaper, De Leon was also declared a "habitual traffic offender" by the court and his license was suspended for three years. As a condition of his probation, he could not leave Marin County without permission from authorities.

De Leon had asked the probation department in Marin County for a travel permit to take his children on a 35-day trip to Mexico. The department referred the request to a judge, who granted the request during a Dec. 4 hearing.

De Leon was ordered to appear in court on Jan. 12 for a status hearing.