OR: Suspect in deadly hit-and-run arrested on anniversary
Suspect in deadly hit-and-run arrested on anniversary of crime
05:59 PM PDT on Monday, July 16, 2007
By SCOTT BURTON, Special to kgw.com
One year to the day after a jogger was hit and killed by a car in the Columbia Gorge police made an arrest in the case.
Out for a summer jog in Dodson, Kimberly Powell was hit and killed by a passing car July 14, 2006.
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Kimberly Powell in a photo from her myspace web page.
Powell, now referred to as Kimberly McDaniel by family, was found barely alive in a blackberry thicket along Frontage Road.
Background: Deputies ID car in hit-and-run
The aspiring drummer was rushed to Legacy Emanuel Hospital where she died one day later.
Her case had dragged on for a year without an arrest until Saturday. On the one-year anniversary of the collision that took Kimberly’s life, detectives arrested 25 year-old Rosendo Rosales-Corona in Lodi, California.
Hands Tied
Detectives had been following Rosales-Corona since February. A confidential informant tipped them off to his location in Michoacan, Mexico. Unable to cross the border to make an arrest, detectives began to work with the Mexican government. For months it proved fruitless. Their hands were tied.
“If I could have driven into Mexico I probably could have driven to the exact location where he was at and me and my partner could have grabbed him and brought him back," said Detective Jay Pentheny of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.
Detectives continued their negotiations without success.
Looking for Work
In late June, Detective Pentheny and his partner Detective Jason Servo of the Gresham Police Department got a tip. Rosales-Corona had moved to Lodi, California to look for seasonal farm work. The detectives worked to confirm an exact location.
With information in hand, Servo and Pentheny traveled to Lodi last week. By Friday, their efforts had turned up no sign of Rosales-Corona.
“Everything fell apart Friday night. We went back to the room Friday night and went crap. We're out of leads,â€
