The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office had been expecting Harjinder Singh to arrive at the jail Aug. 22 after returning from California on Aug. 21.

Fort Pierce, FL — A semi-truck driver who entered the country illegally and later secured a commercial driver’s license in California is now charged with three counts of vehicular homicide after a deadly crash on the Florida Turnpike that left three people dead.

A signature-collection petition in support of Harjinder Singh, the truck driver who killed three people in a crash in Florida, is at the center of a fresh row as social media users ask how they were allowed to start a petition in support of the Indian-origin man who was residing in the US illegally.

"They're not the same person," said Navdeep Grewal, president of U.S. Citylink Corp. of Bakersfield, Calif., the company that a man named Harjinder Singh was working for when he made his failed attempt to cross the Dale Bend Bridge.

The semi-truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn on Florida's Turnpike is being held without bond in St. Lucie County Jail after being extradited to Florida from California.

Suspect 28-year-old Harjinder Singh allegedly made an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike near Fort Pierce that led to a collision.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatched his top deputy to California to oversee the handover of a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida last week.

The semi-truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn on Florida's Turnpike is being held without bond in St. Lucie County Jail after being extradited to Florida from California.