Posted on 02/23/2005 12:10:06 PM PST by freepatriot32
TORONTO detectives didn't have to travel far to arrest a man who allegedly drove away after running over a man who had jumped off a bridge onto the DVP. Officers arrested and charged a civilian member of the Toronto Police Service with failing to stop after the Jan. 29 accident, traffic services Det. Wally Watts said yesterday.
The suspect is a 10-year veteran of the Toronto police service who works as a computer programmer in information technology services/computer operations at police headquarters.
EMPLOYEE SUSPENDED
The employee has also been suspended pending further investigation, Watts said.
Watts said the 22-year-old man who was run over committed suicide, by jumping off the Riverdale footbridge that spans the DVP.
It was originally reported, on Jan. 29, that a black late-90s model BMW 3-Series car sustained damage to the front and rear end bumpers and undercarriage after hitting the body.
2ND DRIVER SOUGHT
Watts said police painstakingly tracked down the suspect car after distinct "pieces of debris" that broke off the car were identified by the Centre for Forensic Sciences and then through BMW Canada.
Watts said investigators also want to talk to the driver of a red Pontiac Sunfire who may have also struck the dead man and left the scene.
Paul Lindo, of Toronto, will appear in Old City Hall court on March 22 to face a charge of failing to stop after an accident involving death.
Kind of hard to prove - but look at www.sierratimes.com/03/whackstack.php
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