Two people were hospitalized during the hit-and-run incident in Gulfport, deputies say.<\/p>\n
GULFPORT, Fla. \u2014 Following a Nov. 28 hit-and-run that left two injured in Gulfport, Pinellas County deputies have made an arrest.<\/p>\n
Sunday night, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, the Major Accident Investigation Team arrested Eugenijus Sviderskas, 77.<\/p>\n
Deputies say they were able to establish through their investigations that the suspect’s vehicle involved in the Gulfport hit-and-run was a red 1997 Ford Econoline van, registered to Sviderskas.<\/p>\n
Investigators said that he was driving the van at the time of the incident, noting that Sviderskas admitted to be driving the car. They also said that Sviderskas admitted to hearing a loud thud but that he did not stop.<\/p>\n
The 77-year-old from Gulfport was charged with two counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury and a count of tampering with physical evidence.<\/p>\n
According to deputies from Pinellas County, the two victims of the hit-and run from Friday are still in the hospital. One is in stable condition, while the other is in “critical but stable condition.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were hospitalized during the hit-and-run incident in Gulfport, deputies say. GULFPORT, Fla. \u2014 Following a Nov.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-65925","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\/65925","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=65925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}