{"id":195436,"date":"2026-03-17T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195436\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:17:10","slug":"witness-helps-deputies-quickly-nab-suspect-in-deadly-state-road-7-hit-and-run-bso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195436\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness helps deputies quickly nab suspect in deadly State Road 7 hit-and-run: BSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A witness\u2019s photo of a black Infiniti helped Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies nab a suspect in a deadly Sunday morning hit-and-run within a few hours, according to an arrest report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/16\/atropello-mato-y-huyo-pero-alguien-lo-retrato-y-ahora-esta-preso\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/16\/atropello-mato-y-huyo-pero-alguien-lo-retrato-y-ahora-esta-preso\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the wreck happened at around 2 a.m. in the 5500 block of North State Road 7 in North Lauderdale. The 36-year-old suspect, Maurice Anthony Scott, would be in handcuffs just three hours later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to a BSO report, the eyewitness told investigators that the other driver, later identified as Scott, went around him at a traffic light and hit the pedestrian at the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scott, of Lauderdale Lakes, briefly stopped and exited his vehicle after hitting the pedestrian, \u201clooked at (him) in the roadway then re-entered the vehicle\u201d and drove away, leaving the victim for dead, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said medics took the victim to Broward Health Medical Center, where doctors pronounced him dead. The report identifies him as a Guatemalan national but does not provide his name or age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said that after the witness showed them a photo he snapped of the Infiniti Q50 sedan and its license plate, \u201c1WISE,\u201d they went to Scott\u2019s apartment building at 2999 NW 48th Ave. and found the visibly-damaged car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, deputies arrested Scott just after 5 a.m. on charges of leaving the scene of a crash and evidence tampering \u2015 the latter charge, deputies said, was based on Scott taking the car from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Monday afternoon, he remained in the BSO Main Jail on a $82,500 bond.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A witness\u2019s photo of a black Infiniti helped Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies nab a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-195436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}