{"id":335844,"date":"2025-12-07T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:32:07","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-hit-and-run-on-s-avenue-b-in-yuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335844\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in hit and run on S. Avenue B in Yuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YUMA COUNTY, Ariz. (KYMA) &#8211; The Yuma County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (YCSO) says a suspect has been arrested in connection to a <a href=\"https:\/\/kyma.com\/news\/2025\/12\/06\/one-dead-in-hit-and-run-on-s-avenue-b-in-yuma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">hit and run in Yuma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, it happened before 5:00 a.m. Saturday in the area of S. Avenue B and W. County 14th Street.<\/p>\n<p>YCSO says the victim was walking on the side of the road when a &#8220;passing vehicle struck her and continued without stopping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The victim, identified as 21-year-old Mariella Acosta of Yuma, was pronounced dead at the scene, YCSO says.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, YCSO says the suspect, a 27-year-old man from Somerton, came forward, and was arrested and booked into the Yuma County Detention Center for &#8220;failure to stay at scene with death or injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. If anyone has information regarding the case, call YCSO at (928) 783-4427, call 78-CRIME to remain anonymous, or visit YCSO&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yumacountysheriff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>\u00a0to submit an anonymous tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YUMA COUNTY, Ariz. (KYMA) &#8211; The Yuma County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (YCSO) says a suspect has been arrested in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-335844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}