Last Updated on June 5, 2017 by CCAR Staff
BEAUMONT >> The Fontana woman with a warrant out for her arrest in connection with a fatal December hit-and-run in Beaumont was apprehended Monday.
Deborah Marie Salazar, 55, was arrested at her home and booked into Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside at 12:40 p.m. Bail was set at $75,000.
The warrant was issued May 22. Beaumont spokeswoman Marcedes Cashmer said before Salazar’s arrest that Salazar was negotiating to turn herself in but would not elaborate.
The declaration written in support of the arrest warrant said Salazar’s doctor told her not to drive because of her medical condition.
Asked Monday what Beaumont police did to prevent Salazar from driving during the negotiations, Cashmer said in an email: “Unfortunately we do not have further comment on this case at this time, this case has been handed over to the District Attorney’s office so further details would need to be released by their press office.”
John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, declined to comment, citing the ongoing criminal prosecution.
Salazar has been charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit-and-run causing injury or death in connection with the Dec. 23 crash that killed Sandra Kay Todd, 53.
