Police Arrest Suspect In Deadly Hit-And-Run Crash In Woodland
WOODLAND (CBS13) - Police arrested a 19-year-old man on Monday after he allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian in Woodland.
At around 1:13 a.m. Monday police say they received a call that a man had been hit by a vehicle near Main and Walnut Streets. Officers went to the address and found the seriously injured man a lying on the sidewalk. The driver of the vehicle had left the scene.
Paramedics arrived, and not long after, pronounced the man dead.
Police found a license plate lying near the crash scene at around 2:20 a.m., and after searching the area extensively, tracked the vehicle down to First Street, just north of Laurel Street, where Ivan Martinez, 19, of Woodland was behind the wheel. He was ordered to come out of the vehicle, but refused and was pulled from the vehicle by officers and arrested.
Martinez was booked into the Monroe Detention Center on charges of gross vehicular manslaughter, fleeing the scene of a collision after having committed manslaughter, DUI causing bodily injury and driving without a license. He is being held on $250,000 bail.
The victim's name is not being released pending notification of relatives.
Woodland police encourage anyone with information about this incident to call them at (530) 666-2411.
