Update – Lakeland Man Arrested
The vehicle was later located at the driver’s Polk County residence parked inside his garage where Troopers learned the driver then fled in a blue 2017 Ford Fiesta which also belonged to him. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Deputies would later locate the Ford Fiesta parked at the Brandon Mall and also located the driver inside the mall. The driver, Edgardo Joel Rosado Perez of Lakeland, aged 41, was later arrested by FHP Troopers for leaving the scene of a fatal crash and delivered to the Hillsborough County Jail.
Anyone with information regarding this case or observes the suspect vehicle is asked to call *FHP (*347) or Crime Stoppers at **TIPS
