{"id":221292,"date":"2026-03-26T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221292\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:09:10","slug":"court-sentences-18-year-old-to-probation-no-jail-in-central-el-paso-scooter-hit-and-run-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221292\/","title":{"rendered":"Court sentences 18-year-old to probation, no jail, in Central El Paso scooter hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A driver accused of a hit-and-run in Central El Paso that left a man seriously injured in 2025 has been sentenced, but will not serve jail time.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show that on March 12, 18-year-old Carlos Manuel Rivera was convicted of a collision involving injury or death and was sentenced to 10 years of probation and 500 hours of community service.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Rivera was the driver who hit 32-year-old Samuel Bryan Ponce on April 12 with his car when Ponce was riding a 2017 TaoTao Scooter on Piedras Street.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/anonymous-tip-leads-to-arrest-in-central-el-paso-hit-and-run-case-piedras-tularosa-crime-stoppers-texas-tx-eppd-chevrolet-malibu-taotao-scooter-samuel-bryan-ponce?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anonymous tip leads to arrest in Central El Paso hit-and-run case<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said Rivera was driving a 2014 Chevrolet Malibu up Piedras, entering the &#8220;mandatory left turn lane&#8221; to turn on Tularosa Avenue, but Rivera continued straight, hitting Ponce and his scooter.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Rivera then left the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Rivera was arrested after authorities received an anonymous tip.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-police-seek-publics-help-to-identify-witness-in-central-hit-and-run-crash?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso police seek public&#8217;s help to identify witness in central hit-and-run crash <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A driver accused of a hit-and-run in Central El Paso that left a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-221292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}