STOCKTON, CA (KOVR) — A woman who picked up a rider near the scene of a Stockton hit-and-run found out a few minutes later that the man was a fugitive from the police.
Mariza Ruelas was working as a Lyft driver Saturday when she passed the crash scene on the way to get a fare. The young man who had hailed her from a house less than half a mile away “seemed kind of anxious and kind of desperate to go home,” Ruelas said.
A few minutes into their drive, she was pulled over by police officers. “Once I got pulled over, and how he was acting, I already knew obviously that they were looking for him,” she said.
“I was like, ‘Don’t you dare run out of this car.’ Because I have kids. I told him, ‘I’m not trying to get caught in the middle of no gunfire,’” she told KTXL-TV.
Police say Michael Magdaleno, 22, and Clarissa Roots, 21, were arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run. No one was injured in the crash.
Ruelas says she’ll still be taking on riders. “It’s just like any other job. You have a risk and all kinds of stuff,” she said. “You could work at a liquor store, someone could come in and rob you.”
And she’ll have the tale of this ride to keep her passengers entertained when they ask her what’s the craziest fare she’s ever picked up.
“Now I got a story to tell, and my rides won’t be so quiet,” Ruelas said.
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