Police arrest man in hit-and-run of pedestrian in Farmingville
Suffolk police and Farmingville first responders were called to the intersection of Portion Road and North Morris Avenue in Farmingville after a pedestrian was struck in a hit-and-run Thursday night. Credit: Stringer News Service
A Farmingville resident has been arrested in the hit-and-run of a 24-year-old man on Thursday in the hamlet, Suffolk police said.
Rene Bautista-Mendoza, 35, faces a leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious physical injury charge, police said. Bautista-Mendoza was arrested Saturday about 2:10 p.m. on Portion Road in the hamlet.
On Thursday, officers responded to a report of an injured pedestrian at the intersection of Portion Road and North Morris Avenue around 10:30 p.m., police said in a news release. They found Gabriel Perez of Farmingville “lying in the roadway.”
Perez was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital in serious condition, police said.
Bautista-Mendoza was released and will be arraigned at a later date, police said.
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