{"id":430308,"date":"2026-10-17T07:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430308\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:40:59","slug":"man-arrested-in-st-petersburg-hit-and-run-crash-that-killed-65-year-old-motorcyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430308\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in St. Petersburg hit-and-run crash that killed 65-year-old motorcyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The suspect is also accused of driving without a valid license at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Petersburg police have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with a deadly hit-and-run crash that killed a motorcyclist<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

Police announced Carlos Briones-Leyva, 26, was arrested Thursday, Oct. 15, on a warrant charging him with leaving the scene of a crash involving death and driving without a valid driver’s license causing death.<\/p>\n


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The crash happened around 1:10 a.m. Sept. 27 at the intersection of 9th Avenue North and 4th Street North.<\/p>\n

According to investigators, Briones-Leyva was driving a dark-colored Mercedes SUV northbound on 4th Street North when he turned west onto 9th Avenue North, crossing in front of a southbound Suzuki motorcycle.<\/p>\n

The SUV and the motorcycle collided, and police said the Mercedes driver sped away westbound on 9th Avenue North.<\/p>\n

The motorcycle’s rider, a 65-year-old man from Pinellas Park, was taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital in St. Petersburg, where he later died.<\/p>\n

Following the crash, investigators released a description of the Mercedes, which they said was dark gray or black with significant front-right damage.<\/p>\n

Police announced Briones-Leyva’s arrest nearly three weeks later. Authorities have not released further details about how investigators identified him as the suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect is also accused of driving without a valid license at the time of the crash. ST.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-430308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430308","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=430308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}