CASS TOWNSHIP, PA - The Joe Biden/Alejandro Mayorkas/Maura Healey death toll added another victim last week when a Pennsylvania State Trooper was killed by an illegal Haitian national who was admitted to the U.S. as a parolee by the Biden administration and denied Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by USCIS. The illegal alien, Michael Bon, 33, of Brockton, Massachusetts was issued a non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s License in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in March 2025, the Boston Herald reported.
On July 1, 2026, Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira Jr., 44, was conducting a routine commercial vehicle inspection on Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County at around 7 a.m. Pennsylvania authorities said the tractor-trailer being inspected and Pahira’s patrol vehicle were pulled over fully onto the right shoulder in the southbound lane.
While the trooper was speaking to the driver of the tractor-trailer, Bon’s truck veered off the roadway onto the right shoulder, hitting the side mirror of Pahira’s patrol truck, plowed into the back of the stopped tractor trailer unit, and struck the trooper. Investigators said that Pahira was pinned beneath the bumper of Bon’s truck, which came to a stop and then burst into flames, the Republican Herald reported.
Aftermath of crash on I-81 in PA that killed PA state trooper
Construction workers in the area saw smoke and went to the scene, where they were able to pull the trooper from beneath the truck and drag him about 30 yards from the wreckage, an arrest affidavit said. Sadly, Pahira never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead last Wednesday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill in Pottsville, PA. Bon was also transported to the hospital for undisclosed injuries.
Bon is facing 10 charges, including felony vehicular homicide, felony vehicular aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, involuntary manslaughter, reckless and careless driving, and other traffic violations.
He was arraigned before a magistrate judge and is being held on $700,000 bond at the Schuylkill County Prison. A preliminary hearing is set for July 16.
The driver of the tractor-trailer Pahira stopped, Walter Alfredo Reinoso of Queens, NY, briefly lost consciousness from the impact. When he regained consciousness, he saw the construction workers attempting to pull Trooper Pahira from the wreckage. He provided troopers with dash camera footage of the crash.
Pahira, a trooper with over 20 years of service to the Pennsylvania State Police, was remembered by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) in an emotional press conference.
“I ask the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to pray for the Pahira family. To pray for his friends and neighbors. To pray for Troop L, where Mike served, and, of course, pray for the entire Pennsylvania State Police community. Today is a horrible reminder of the service and the sacrifice that they devote to the Commonwealth every single day,” Shapiro said. “As the governor of this Commonwealth, I am profoundly grateful, and I sleep better at night knowing the Pennsylvania State Police does this work in communities across our Commonwealth.”
Trooper Michael Pahira Jr.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Bon’s parole was terminated in June 2025, issuing a termination notice on June 13. Despite his parole being terminated, Bon refused to leave the country and settled in the Boston suburb of Brockton.
As expected in a liberal mecca like Massachusetts, the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) attempted to deflect blame for issuing Bon a non-domiciled CDL, saying that when he was issued the license in March 2025, only two months into the Trump administration, he was eligible under federal standards in place at that time. Never wasting time in making political hay, the RMV issued the following statement:
“Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira Jr.’s death is a horrific and terrible tragedy. We mourn him and our thoughts are with his loved ones and fellow troopers. This defendant should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” RMV spokesperson Amelia Aubourg told the Herald. “The Non-Domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses program is a federal program. This individual was ruled eligible based on the Trump administration database and allowed to drive by federal law and Trump administration policies.”
Six weeks into his administration and after his Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, was confirmed, and it’s Trump’s fault.
In February 2026, Bon applied to renew his CDL and it was approved with the administration still operating under the old rules implemented before America’s highways turned into a killing field courtesy of illegal alien truckers. A new rule was implemented on March 16 directing states not to renew or issue non-domiciled CDLs.
“The RMV relies on the federal SAVE database to determine whether someone is eligible to work in the United States. When Bon applied for a CDL in 2025 and 2026, he was listed by the federal government as eligible," Aubourg said.
The Herald noted that while the RMV claimed Bon was eligible to work, it is the Massachusetts State Police that manages all CDL skills and road tests in coordination with the RMV. Curious why this was the case, the Herald asked Aubourg why the MSP manages road tests at all.
“The Massachusetts State Police’s role is limited to conducting the commercial skills tests for the CDL program. They do not have the authority to approve or issue CDLs,” she said.
The state police program came under fire last year when six MSP troopers in the department’s CDL unit were found guilty of participating in a pay-to-play scheme, where they would pass prospective drivers who failed the test in exchange for gifts–prosecutors say the troopers called it “the golden handshake.”
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