A suspect in a fatal hit-and-run crash along Interstate 78 in Berks County earlier this month was apprehended by police in Louisiana.
Ameer Nassar, 25, of Houston, Texas, was arrested in Louisiana and is suspected of driving into a truck driver on the shoulder of I-78 in Bethel Township on April 10 before fleeing the scene. Police say that truck driver was out of his vehicle at the time, fixing straps on his flatbed trailer when Nassar drove by, struck and killed him.
The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office reports that on Tuesday, police conducted a traffic stop on Nassar’s vehicle, a commercial box truck and the very same one suspected in the incident on I-78, for traffic violations, police say. Authorities in Louisiana identified Nassar as being wanted by Pennsylvania State Police and he was taken into custody.
State Police here say the victim of the crash was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on I-78. Nassar was extradited to Pennsylvania and arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Andrea Book on Thursday on a felony charge of accidents involving death as well as a misdemeanor charge of accidents involving damage to a vehicle, and summary offenses for failing to stop and render aid and failing to notify police of a crash involving death or injury.
Book set bail at $30,000 and he was sent to Berks County Prison. Court records show he was released the next day after posting bond.
READ MORE: One Dead in Hit-and-Run on I-78 in Berks County, Police Seeking Witnesses
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