Last Updated on February 4, 2017 by CCAR Staff
RIALTO >> Police arrested a 20-year-old Fontana man in connection with a Jan. 10 hit-and-run crash that killed a 53-year-old Rialto woman, according to officials.
Jesus Orozco, who police say had fled to Mexico following the crash, was brought to the border with the help of U.S. federal law enforcement agencies and arrested by the Rialto Police Department on Friday, according to a department news release.
Online jail records show that Orozco was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run causing death or injury and was booked into West Valley Detention Center.
Shortly before 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 10 a vehicle struck Rosalind Pitchford, 53, on Cedar Avenue south of Third Street in Rialto and left the scene, officials say.
They say Pitchford was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where she died from her injuries.
An investigation by the Rialto Police Department’s Major Accident Investigation Team led to Orozco being named a suspect in the crash.
