A Hispanic couple from North Carolina was arrested six months after a 12-year-old girl was run over as she was returning home to prepare her sleepover for her birthday.
Blanca De Mari Escobar Roblero, 27, and Wilmer Morales Roblero, 26, were arrested Thursday after the accident that occurred on November 25, 2022 in Raleigh, where the girl Samantha Briggs died.
The woman, who was allegedly behind the wheel of the vehicle that struck Briggs, faces felony charges of hit and run causing serious injury or death and obstructing justice.
For his part, her husband, who is a native of Guatemala and lives in the country undocumented, received charges of complicity and obstruction of justice for his alleged attempt to cover up the crime by destroying evidence, after allegedly setting fire to the vehicle involved.
Before the fatal accident, at 7:30 pm, Samantha was trying to cross Hillsborough Street with a group of friends after shopping for supplies for her sleepover, when a speeding white Hyundai struck the girl.
Following the crash, Briggs was taken to a hospital, where she died of her injuries, the New York Post reported.
Those involved fled, and the Raleigh police spent months trying to find them, but to no avail.
It wasn’t until May 12 that a man offered a key tip that led to the arrest of the Hispanic couple.
After Escobar Roblero ran over Samantha, the woman called her husband, who was not with her in the car at the time of the crash, and told him what had happened.
The couple later drove the Hyundai to Franklin County, where the subject “excessively burned the suspect vehicle.”
During a court hearing, a prosecutor said cell phone records located Escobar Roblero at the scene of the accident and the site where the vehicle burned.
The woman allegedly admitted to hitting Samantha during an interview with police.
Also, her husband’s phone rang at the scene of the hit-and-run after the accident, and moments later in Franklin County.
The judge in the case set bond for the wife at $50,000 and the husband at $25,000.
With information from the New York Post
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