MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 65-year-old man is accused of hitting a pedestrian near his southwest Miami-Dade home and leaving him to die in the street without ever giving aid or calling 911.
Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested the accused driver, Alberto Pozo, on Wednesday in connection with the April 16 crash in the unincorporated Palmetto Estates area.
The wreck happened at 11 p.m. as a pedestrian crossed Southwest 112th Avenue near 160th Street outside of a crosswalk, deputies said.
Authorities said Pozo, who lives about a mile away, hit the man and kept on driving.
Deputies said they were able to track down the Dodge Journey SUV to Pozo’s home and saw it with damage “consistent with hitting a pedestrian.”
They said he made an admission, which was redacted from the arrest report.
Authorities said he turned himself in at an MDSO station Wednesday night and was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving death.
Pozo was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $15,000 bond as of Thursday afternoon.
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Source: local10
