Man arrested in Superior accused in Longmont hit-and-run that prompted Erie shelter-in-place

A man was arrested in Superior on Thursday night after Erie police ordered a shelter-in-place that morning while searching for him after a hit-and-run on Longmont’s Main Street early Thursday morning.

Boulder County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Alberto Jouvon Dias, 30, late Thursday night in Superior on charges of second-degree assault, failure to remain at the scene of an accident resulting in injury, reckless driving and vehicular eluding, according to an arrest affidavit. Dias was arrested after Erie police failed to find him in a search that prompted a shelter-in-place order for a neighborhood Thursday morning.

Dias reportedly pulled out of a parking spot and hit a man around 2:30 a.m. Thursday on Main Street in Longmont, before driving away and eluding Longmont police by blowing through a stop sign and driving recklessly, the affidavit states…

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