The Commerce City Police Department has made an arrest in the high-profile hit-and-run that injured 13-year-old D’Artagnan Alexander Dye on June 17.
Tuesday traffic investigators got an unspecified tip that led them to Alonso Ponce-Jimenez, 67, of Commerce City. His driver’s license is revoked for three prior convictions on alcohol-related charges, police said.
The white Ford truck believed to have been involved in the case was impounded after it was seized from a home in Thornton, police said.
Ponce-Jimenez is being held at the Adams County Detention Facility for a previous arrest warrant, while awaiting new charges of leaving the scene of an accident involving serious bodily injury and driving without a license.
Dye is recovering from injuries sustained when he was hit by a truck at East 75th Avenue and Oneida Street. He initially was in a medically induced coma.
Police say the truck stopped that hit the boy stopped briefly, but left without the driving trying to help.
Larry Dye, D’Artagnan’s father, has made public pleas through the media for the driver to come forward and take responsibility.
