GIBSONTON, Fla. – Pasco County deputies arrested a man on Friday, Dec. 13, wanted in connection with a deadly hit-and-run accident in Gibsonton earlier in the week.
Hillsborough County investigators said Jonathan Saldana Rojas, 27, was driving a white sedan on Wednesday, Dec. 11th, and turning left on Symmes Road in Gibsonton when he crashed into a motorcycle.
The motorcyclist, Isaiah Raposa, 18, died at the hospital.
Detectives said Rojas took off and was on the run until Dec. 13th, when Pasco deputies caught him.
“How heartless can somebody be that you just leave somebody’s child on the side of the road and like he was nothing?” said Jessica Washington, Isaiah’s mother. “I just didn’t sleep for two nights, just thinking about the fact that he was out there just not caring.” …