{"id":250629,"date":"2026-04-03T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250629\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:59:07","slug":"alleged-driver-in-san-marcos-hit-and-run-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250629\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged driver in San Marcos hit-and-run arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged driver in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in San Marcos earlier this year was arrested Thursday, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>John Alvarado, 39, was booked on suspicion of felony hit and run and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in connection with the death of 62-year-old Carey Faust on Feb. 21, Sgt. Jeremy Collis said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Faust was standing behind his parked vehicle when he was struck by a Hyundai Venue near North Pacific Street and 1st Street, Collis said.<\/p>\n<p>Faust died before he could be taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The SUV\u2019s driver got out of the SUV and ran away north toward Mission Avenue, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado was arrested by the Fugitive Task Force and is being held in lieu of $300,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged driver in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in San Marcos earlier this year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,3054,74,84,76,75,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-250629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-north-county","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news","18":"tag-san-marcos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250629","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=250629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}