{"id":207251,"date":"2026-03-26T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207251\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:42:08","slug":"broward-deputies-arrest-66-year-old-woman-for-fatal-hit-and-run-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207251\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward deputies arrest 66-year-old woman for fatal hit-and-run crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 26, 2026 at 10:56 AM<\/p>\n<p>Woman arrested for Broward fatal hit-and-run crash  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WEST PARK, Fla.  \u2014 A 66-year-old woman was behind bars on Thursday, accused of running over a 61-year-old woman who died at the hospital on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/26\/arrestan-a-mujer-de-66-anos-por-choque-mortal-con-fuga-en-broward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/26\/arrestan-a-mujer-de-66-anos-por-choque-mortal-con-fuga-en-broward\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies arrested Karen Essick on Wednesday, and corrections booked her at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fatal hit-and-run crash happened on early Monday morning in West Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Essick was traveling eastbound on Hallandale Beach Boulevard, and Mishell Laurine Warner, a pedestrian, \u201cwas not in a designated crosswalk,\u201d near Barry Road, according to deputies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Warner died at Memorial Regional Hospital after deputies found her lying on the road at about 6:45 a.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/23\/woman-dies-after-hit-and-run-crash-in-west-park-deputies-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/23\/woman-dies-after-hit-and-run-crash-in-west-park-deputies-say\/\">on Monday<\/a>, according to BSO. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Essick faced charges of tampering or fabricating physical evidence and failing to stop and remain at the scene of an accident involving death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 26, 2026 at 10:56 AM Woman arrested for Broward fatal hit-and-run crash WEST PARK, Fla. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-207251","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\/207251","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=207251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}