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Police make arrest in fatal hit-and-run crash with motorcycle in South Omaha
Omaha Police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents take a man into custody Thursday afternoon at the address of the suspect in Wednesday's hit-and-run crash that left a motorcyclist dead. The Ford Explorer seen in surveillance video colliding with a motorcyclist near 32nd and Q streets was registered to Luis Velasquez-Ortiz. Courtesy video
Omaha Police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents take a man into custody Thursday afternoon at the address of the suspect in Wednesday's hit-and-run crash that left a motorcyclist dead. The Ford Explorer seen in surveillance video colliding with a motorcyclist near 32nd and Q streets was registered to Luis Velasquez-Ortiz. Courtesy photo
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Omaha Police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents take a man into custody Thursday afternoon at the address of the suspect in Wednesday's hit-and-run crash that left a motorcyclist dead. The Ford Explorer seen in surveillance video colliding with a motorcyclist near 32nd and Q streets was registered to Luis Velasquez-Ortiz. Courtesy photo
Copyright 2018 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Omaha Police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents take a man into custody Thursday afternoon at the address of the suspect in Wednesday's hit-and-run crash that left a motorcyclist dead. The Ford Explorer seen in surveillance video colliding with a motorcyclist near 32nd and Q streets was registered to Luis Velasquez-Ortiz. Courtesy photo
Copyright 2018 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Omaha Police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents take a man into custody Thursday afternoon at the address of the suspect in Wednesday's hit-and-run crash that left a motorcyclist dead. The Ford Explorer seen in surveillance video colliding with a motorcyclist near 32nd and Q streets was registered to Luis Velasquez-Ortiz. Courtesy photo
Copyright 2018 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) - Omaha Police have made an arrest in a fatal hit-and-run crash in South Omaha that killed a motorcyclist.
Luis Velasquez-Ortiz, 42, was located and booked Thursday afternoon on a felony arrest warrant for leaving the scene of an accident involving serious bodily injury or death. Velasquez-Ortiz is the registered owner of the vehicle involved in a Wednesday crash near 32nd and Q streets that left motorcyclist Juan J. Moreno-Tamayo, 31, dead.
Police said Velasquez-Ortiz failed to yield at a stop sign, hit Moreno-Tamayo on his motorcycle, and then fled the scene.