{"id":15566,"date":"2025-10-21T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/15566\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:39:11","slug":"santee-hit-run-dui-suspect-arrested-after-fleeing-crash-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/15566\/","title":{"rendered":"Santee hit-run DUI suspect arrested after fleeing crash, hiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/SD-sheriff-car-3.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SD-sheriff-car-3.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego Sheriff's Department.\" class=\"wp-image-119234\"  \/><\/a>A San Diego Sheriff\u2019s cruiser. (Photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>A 37-year-old man suspected of driving while intoxicated and injuring another motorist in a hit-and-run collision in Santee has been taken into custody, authorities announced Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies were dispatched around 9:27 p.m. Sunday to the 9000 block of Mission Gorge Road to reports regarding a multi-vehicle collision, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect traveled at a high rate of speed near Mission Gorge Road and Fanita Drive moments before crashing into another vehicle, leaving the occupant inside, obstructing traffic, before running toward the San Diego River, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified by authorities as Robert Panza, was attempting to hide under vehicles near homes and in bushes. A containment perimeter was established and Panza was found following assistance from a patrol helicopter, K9 unit and tips from the public, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPanza appeared to be intoxicated and was taken into sheriff\u2019s custody without incident,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Panza was subsequently booked on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant and hit-and-run offenses. Anyone with information regarding the hit-and-run was urged to call the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/Home\/Components\/FacilityDirectory\/FacilityDirectory\/42\/34\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santee Sheriff\u2019s Station<\/a> at 619-956-4000.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego Sheriff\u2019s cruiser. (Photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego) A 37-year-old man suspected of driving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[13409,11077,161,13410,74,12027,76,75,4891,13411,6005],"class_list":["post-15566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-37-year-old-man","tag-dui","tag-hit-and-run","tag-robert-panza","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-office","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-santee","tag-santee-sheriffs-station","tag-suspect-arrested"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}