Illegal migrant sought in hit-run of bro of pro-cop ‘Donut Boy' may be hiding in NYC: official
An illegal migrant on the lam after allegedly mowing down the son of a former cop in Nashville may be hiding out in The Bronx — and he's now got a $10,000 bounty on his head.
Fugitive Venezuelan Tony Gebian Lopez Infante, 32, has been the subject of a massive manhunt since the May 18 hit-run of 21-year-old Zack Carach — but may be running out of time as authorities zero in on the Big Apple, said a national police group offering up the hefty reward for Lopez Infante's capture.
Carach, who was critically injured in the crime, is the son of a retired cop and the older brother of Tyler Carach, whose years-long sweet support of law enforcement across the country — including the NYPD — earned him the nickname 'Donut Boy.'
3 Illegal immigrant Tony Gebian Lopez Infante is wanted for a May 18 hit-and-run in Nashville.
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'I felt it was important to post the $10,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect, to help bring justice to a law enforcement family,' wrote Joseph Occhipinti, founder and executive director of the New Jersey-based National Police Defense Foundation, in an email to The Post on Monday.
'The mother is a retired police officer and NPDF member,' Occhipinti said. 'Also, her younger son, Tyler Carach, received nationwide notoriety as the 'Donut Boy' who went around the country bringing donuts to police stations nationwide.'
Zack Carach was in Nashville celebrating his 21st birthday when he was struck and seriously injured by the rented Mitsubishit Mirage, keeping him hospitalized for weeks — and in a wheelchair for months after.
Cops tracked down the car two days later at a car rental lot and found the front end damaged.
3 Zack Carach was in Nashville to celebrate his 21st birthday when he was struck by an illegal immigrant's car, authorities said.
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'I can say in that moment, my heart left my body,' Zack's mom, retired Virginia cop Sheena Carach, told Fox News in a June 7 interview. 'I mean, I can clearly see myself running in the video.
'I know that happened,' she told the outlet. 'I was there, but I don't know how I was even breathing because I immediately thought I had just saw my child be killed. I thought I had lost my child. I ran to him, and I just started praying.'
The driver 'should never have been in the US,' a top official at the Department of Homeland Security told The Post about Lopez Infante earlier this month.
Federal immigration officials said the illegal immigrant entered the US on Aug. 1, 2023, and was released into the country two weeks later — then ordered deported Sept. 25, 2024.
But Lopez Infante never showed up to answer the order and remained a wanted man when he allegedly struck Zack.
3 Zach spent weeks in the hospital after getting hit by the vehicle in May.
Courtesy Carach family
'The Biden Administration released this illegal alien into our country in 2023,' DHS said on X earlier this month. 'This crime was preventable and is the direct result of open border policies that prioritized illegal aliens over the safety of American citizens.'
For the Carach family, the reward from the national police group is a welcome development.
The law-enforcement family earned national attention when Tyler gained fame as the 'Donut Boy,' showing his appreciation for police departments by bringing them donuts since he was 8.
By 2023, when he was just shy of his 16th birthday, Tyler had already delivered more than 10,000 donuts — or 'power rings' — to departments in all 50 states, Police1 reported.
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