Left images: Vilma Vneshta and Alvi Limani are shown being escorted by police after their extradition to New Jersey from Florida (@jhongb85/TikTok); Right images: Vilma Vneshta and Alvi Limani (Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation).
A mother and her son, hailing from Staten Island, New York, are now facing charges in New Jersey following their arrest in Florida, linked to a deadly street-racing incident that occurred last month.
On July 17, Vilma Vneshta, 42, and her 20-year-old son, Alvi Limani, were apprehended in Miami, allegedly as they attempted to leave the United States. Limani is accused of driving a BMW X3 recklessly, resulting in a collision with two other vehicles and ejecting two passengers during a fatal street-racing crash on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway on June 29, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone.
One of those passengers, 20-year-old Albion Hysenaj, died. Another 21-year-old passenger was hospitalized with serious injuries.
Emily Harrington, 19, who was also a passenger in Limani’s BMW X3, did not get ejected from the vehicle. Prosecutor Ciccone’s press release mentioned that she fled the scene on foot alongside Limani. Harrington was subsequently arrested and charged with hindering, obstruction, and conspiracy to endanger another.
Another individual allegedly involved in the race is 23-year-old Jeter Ogando, who was driving a BMW M5 that participated in the fatal crash. He now faces charges of vehicular homicide, endangering another, and assault by auto.
Ciccone, along with Colonel Patrick J. Callahan of the New Jersey State Police, indicated that after the crash, Limani reportedly traveled with Vneshta to Miami with intentions to escape the country. Both were apprehended in the Miami area and placed in custody on July 17, where they remained until being extradited back to New Jersey.
Miami-based NBC affiliate WTVJ reported that when Vneshta and Limani arrived in New Jersey, a TikTok user — @jhongb85 — took video of them deplaning as law enforcement vehicles surrounded the aircraft.
Vneshta was charged with hindering. Her son faces a litany of charges in connection to the crash — aggravated manslaughter, vehicular homicide, knowingly leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, causing death while driving with a suspended license, two counts of endangering an injured victim, two counts of endangering, tampering with public records, hindering, knowingly leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury, assault by auto, and causing serious injury while driving with a suspended license.
All four suspects are scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 28.
