Comprehensive foreign media news, the Chinese woman who hit and killed a cyclist in Whittier in 2017 was found in Australia and extradited to the United States this week.
Whittier police officer Sam Reid said that Andrea Dorothy Chen Reyes, 35, arrived at Van Nuys Airport on Thursday, October 29. The police subsequently detained her in Whittier Prison.
U.S. Federal Marshals Agency spokesperson and deputy sheriff Matthew Cordova said that the U.S. Marshals arrested her from Australia and handed her over to Whittier police.
It is reported that former Whittier resident Andrea Dorothy Chan Reyes (Andrea Dorothy Chan Reyes) was accused of driving a white Lexus into a collision near 9000 Kalmada Avenue on January 30, 2017. Cyclist Agustin Rodriguez Jr. (Agustin Rodriguez Jr.). The car dragged the 46-year-old Rodriguez several hundred feet, and the medical staff announced that Augustine Rodriguez Jr. had died on the spot.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on September 21, 2017 charged the Chinese woman Andrea Dorothy Chan Reyes with the crime of hitting and fleeing and causing death or serious injury, and a traffic accident. The crime of manslaughter and the crime of destroying or concealing evidence. She was also accused of causing great personal injury to Rodriguez.
District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Richard Santiago (Richard Santiago) said, “If convicted, she will face more than 11 years in prison.”
court records show that an anonymous informant said that one of his women The colleague drove a white Lexus, was late for work on the day of the crash, and provided the police with the address of the female colleague in Whittier.
The police found that Chen Reyes owned a 2017 Lexus IS 350, which was sent to a repair shop in Huntington Beach one day after the hit and run. According to court documents, she told the store that she had hit a deer.
On March 7, 2017, investigators found this Lexus in a private garage in Idaho. The owner of the garage was Chen Reyes's boyfriend's business partner at the time. Authorities said the DNA found in the car matched Rodriguez's. A few weeks after the impact of
, Chen Reyes fled the United States. It is not clear when she left for Australia, but Whittier Police Officer Sam Reid said that in January 2018, the FBI learned that she was there. Whittier police worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to issue an international arrest warrant for the suspect.
FBI spokesperson Rukelt Dalberis declined to comment on the case and referred the question to the Whittier Police Department. In April 2018, Australian officials arrested Chen Reyes in Adelaide under a US arrest warrant. She tried not to be extradited to the United States, but failed.
