{"id":64171,"date":"2025-12-18T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64171\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:43:08","slug":"amazon-delivery-driver-accused-of-fatal-hit-and-run-in-allentown-arrested-in-philly-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64171\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon delivery driver accused of fatal hit-and-run in Allentown arrested in Philly (UPDATE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Amazon delivery driver has been arrested on a felony homicide charge following an allegedly intentional hit-and-run crash <\/a>that killed another man in Allentown.<\/p>\n

Aside from the homicide charge, Troy Johnson, 30, of Philadelphia, also is charged with felony involuntary manslaughter; felony accidents involving death; and misdemeanor reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n

He was arrested Wednesday morning by the U.S. Marshals Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force and Allentown detectives at a home in the 5400 block of Norfolk Street in southwest Philadelphia. <\/p>\n

Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Robert Clark told lehighvalleylive.com investigators raided the property at 7:30 a.m. and found Johnson inside. The home is owned by Johnson\u2019s family members, he said.<\/p>\n

Johnson currently is awaiting arraignment on the charges. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if an attorney has been assigned to represent him.<\/p>\n

Johnson is accused of striking and running over 29-year-old Rigoberto E. Hernandez Arias <\/a>with a delivery truck just before 8 p.m. Nov. 21 in Allentown\u2019s 2400 block of South Fourth Street.<\/p>\n

Hernandez Arias was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township<\/a>, where he was pronounced dead at 8:43 p.m. Nov. 21.<\/p>\n

Hernandez Arias died from blunt force injuries suffered in the crash, and the manner was ruled a homicide by Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio.<\/p>\n

Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan<\/a> previously told lehighvalleylive.com that Johnson and Hernandez Arias were involved in a verbal dispute just prior to the crash. Clark told lehighvalleylive.com Johnson was employed with Amazon at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

Jesus Garcia, a public relations manager for Amazon, told lehighvalleylive.com that Johnson was employed with a \u201cdeliver service partner,\u201d which offers delivery services for Amazon. Johnson was suspended by his company immediately after the incident and is no longer eligible to deliver on behalf of Amazon, Garcia said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a terrible tragedy and our thoughts are with the victim\u2019s family and loved ones,\u201d Garcia added.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no indication Hernandez Arias and Johnson knew each other previously, Holihan has said.<\/p>\n

The district attorney\u2019s office on Wednesday released the following allegations of what occurred during the incident: <\/p>\n

\u201cOne witness told police he was behind a van driven by Johnson at the time, date and location the fatal crash occurred. He said Hernandez Arias\u2019 vehicle, a Nissan SUV, pulled next to Johnson\u2019s delivery van as the victim got out of his vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two vehicles then stopped at a traffic light and after a verbal altercation the victim was found to be on the hood of the van while Johnson drove nearly \u00bc of a mile.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring that time, witnesses saw Johnson driving the van from side-to-side in an attempt to knock the victim off the hood. Johnson then slammed on the brakes of the van, ran over the victim and left the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

A warrant was filed on Dec. 10 by Allentown police for the arrest of Johnson. The case was then turned over to the Marshals Fugitive Task Force, Clark said.<\/p>\n

An online fundraiser has since been launched <\/a>to financially offset funeral expenses for Hernandez Arias\u2019s immediate family. Family members include Hernandez Arias\u2019s wife of 10 years, Meicy, and the couple\u2019s three children, ages 11, 7 and 3.<\/p>\n

As of 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, 167 donors had raised $55,985 toward a $65,000 goal. The fundraiser is being organized by Joshua Gamez, CEO of East Coast Facilities, Inc., where Hernandez Arias worked as a field supervisor with the Allentown-based Fleet and Logistics group for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n

Gamez states in the GoFundMe posting that Hernandez Arias immigrated to the United States to build a \u201csafer, brighter future\u201d for his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile nothing can undo the harm that was done to the Hernandez family, I hope this arrest brings a measure of closure to the family,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amazon delivery driver has been arrested on a felony homicide charge following an allegedly intentional hit-and-run crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6269,119,121,120,591],"class_list":{"0":"post-64171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-ala2014032416204504","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-merlinmigration2014"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}