Santo Hilario Garcia, 35, and Marcelina Garcia Profecto, 33, were leaving a home in Delano -- a rural town in California's Central Valley -- in their SUV on Tuesday when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived looking for a Mexican citizen who had been deported, according to the city's police and ICE.
The agents saw that Garcia matched their target's description and stopped the couple, said Lori Haley, an ICE spokeswoman.
The couple lost control of their SUV when it veered into a dirt shoulder. The vehicle overturned and eventually hit a power pole. The two occupants of the car were immediately pronounced dead.
ICE later learned that Garcia was not the person the agents had been looking for, the agency said.
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