An Opelousas man is in jail in connection with a hit and run incident in Scott this past weekend.
The incident happened around 9:12 Saturday night at the intersection of Westgate Road and Eraste Landry Road.
27-year-old Grosvin Ortiz Aguilar admitted to running the stop sign, crashing his girlfriend’s car into the victim’s vehicle, then driving through a front yard fence while leaving the scene.
Aguilar told police he did not stop because he is not a legal U.S. Citizen. Aguilar was found after his girlfriend lied to the 911 dispatcher, saying she had been in a hit and run.
Aguilar was arrested and booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center.