HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Police arrested a 54-year-old man Tuesday after they said he didn’t stay at the scene after hitting a pedestrian on Hollywood Beach in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. They said doctors later pronounced the victim dead.
According to a report from the Hollywood Police Department, Guillermo Portuondo was driving a Ram 1500 pickup truck along North Ocean Drive near Nebraska Street when the pedestrian tried crossing outside of a crosswalk just before 2:30 that morning.
Traffic had been swerving to avoid the pedestrian, whose name was redacted from the report, police said…