Riverside police arrested a 28-year-old Chicago woman, April 16, for a hit-and-run accident she caused the day before. Around 3:45 p.m. on April 15, two officers were dispatched to the intersection of Harlem and Ogden avenues on a report of a hit-and-run involving two cars. The victim told police she was driving south on Harlem Avenue in the right lane when another car passed her car on the right in the shoulder of the roadway. The woman said the other car, a black Jeep, struck hers on the right side when it moved to merge back into the traffic lane and did not stop afterward.
The officers observed damage to the right front door and fender with some black paint transfer. Police checked public security cameras and identified the car, including its license plate number, and found it was registered to a Chicago woman.
On April 16, police checked more cameras and found that the vehicle drives south on Harlem Avenue “almost every day” between 3-3:45 p.m. According to police, an officer waited at Berkeley Road for the car to pass and pulled it over. During the traffic stop, the officer learned the driver, who was the woman the car was registered to, had a revoked driver’s license. The officer arrested the woman, and she denied knowing about the previous day’s accident, though the officer noted white paint transfer on the rear driver’s side of the car matching what the other woman said…