An undocumented immigrant was arrested Friday after authorities say he struck and killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run crash in Manatee County.
The Florida Freeway Patrol recognized the motive force as 38-year-old Carranza Dominguez. He faces a number of costs, together with leaving the scene of a crash involving dying, driving and not using a license involving a dying, and DUI.
Troopers mentioned the crash occurred Friday night time on the intersection of fifteenth Road East and forty ninth Avenue East. A 46-year-old man was strolling alongside the northbound lane of fifteenth Road East when Dominguez, driving in the identical route, hit him and left the scene, in response to investigators.
Shortly afterward, Dominguez was concerned in one other crash on Ninth Road East earlier than fleeing on foot, troopers mentioned. He was later taken into custody.
Authorities haven’t but launched the identify of the sufferer.
The arrest comes simply weeks after a separate case in South Florida, the place 28-year-old Harjinder Singh, an undocumented immigrant from India, was charged in a lethal crash on the Florida Turnpike. Troopers mentioned Singh tried an unlawful U-turn together with his semi-truck, blocking the northbound lanes and inflicting a minivan to crash into the trailer. Three individuals within the minivan had been killed, and Singh now faces vehicular murder costs.
Within the aftermath, Florida Legal professional Basic James Uthmeier announced that each one truck agricultural inspection stations all through the state may even function federal immigration checkpoints, focusing on drivers who’re undocumented or maintain out-of-state licenses.
