A suspect has been arrested for a hit-and-run SUV crash that killed a pedestrian in a Lower East Side crosswalk, police said Monday.
Julio Cachago, 54, was arrested Saturday when he tried to report to police that his vehicle, a 2010 Ford Edge, had been stolen, cops said.
But by that time his SUV had already been flagged as having left the scene at Stanton and Clinton Sts. where the victim was struck just before 7 p.m. Thursday. She had the walk light, according to the criminal complaint against the suspect.
Cachago is charged with criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of a fatal accident and failure to yield to a pedestrian.
He was driving north on Clinton St. and had the green light when he turned onto Stanton St. and allegedly hit the woman in the crosswalk and kept going, proescutors say.
Medics rushed the woman, who had no ID on her, to Bellevue Hospital but she could not be saved. Cops are still trying to determine her identity.
Prosecutors recovered surveillance video showing the vehicle pulled over 35 minutes later in the Finacial District. The driver got out and inspected the front of the SUV for damage before continuing on to the Bronx, according to court papers.
Cops later found the damaged SUV parked in the Bronx and took it to the 7th Precinct stationhouse on the Lower East Side, apparently prompting Cachago to report it stolen.
Cachago lives in the Astoria Houses in Queens, according to cops.
