Seven months after two Bay Space males had been discovered lifeless in a wrecked pickup truck, the suspected driver was arrested in San Jose, the California Freeway Patrol stated.
Hugo Mendoza, a San Jose resident, was taken into custody Saturday evening after police who contacted him on one other matter discovered he was the topic of a warrant from the CHP’s Modesto workplace, the Modesto Bee reported.
Mendoza is being held on expenses of felony vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run.
He's suspected of being the person seen fleeing on foot after a deadly single-vehicle accident Feb. 6 in Stanislaus County.
A 2011 GMC pickup had apparently been westbound on Freeway 132 round 2:30 a.m. when it went off the two-lane rural highway and hit some timber simply east of the San Joaquin River.
Within the pickup two males had been discovered lifeless: Jovany Serrano-Caballero, 23, of Hayward and Saul Garcia, 36, of San Jose.
The one who reported the accident stated he had pulled over on the roadside to name 911 when a person bought out of the driving force’s facet of the truck and ran previous his automotive.
Mendoza’s bail was set at $500,000, the Bee stated.