Posted on 08/03/2023 7:56:18 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
The fatal crash on the evening of June 9 in Riverview, Fla., sparked a hunt for the truck's driver, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Investigators tracked down the suspect using an unlikely clue: a scathing one-star review of a business on Google.
"Just doing this review because the owner or son of the owner had a big accident on 301 and Balm River involving a couple on a motorcycle," the review read, according to court documents. "The thing is he [fled] the scene and all I got was his company name on his white truck. Please if anyone seen his truck with a hit on the passenger side that's the bike that he hit and ran like a coward. putting this here in case he didn't Turn himself in yet."
The one-star review was posted to the page of Arbor Pros Tree Service, a tree removal and trimming company. Investigators matched the company's logo to one seen on surveillance footage on the tailgate of the fleeing truck, according to the affidavit.
It was the breakthrough they needed to charge Chad Stall, a 29-year-old arborist with the company, with leaving the scene of a fatal crash.
An attorney for Stall did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday evening, nor did Arbor Pros Tree Service.
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Tree-cuttin’ crash runner!
He looks like your average Democrat. The crazy eyes give it away.
Meth, it’s a hellofa drug.
Love that deer in the headlights look!
But then, I would probably look the same with the Bright Lights shining in my face!
“OK, excellent initiative on the part of the person who posted the review. “
Nothing burger. The police already had the name of the company from video of the accident.
Now, why didn’t the poster call the police?
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