Venezuelan opposition deputy and former political prisoner Gilber Caro was arrested on Monday by Miami police after fleeing the scene of a fatal car accident in which he was involved.
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Caro, a member of former opposition leader Juan Guaido’s party, Voluntad Popular, is being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He was detained after running away from the scene of the Monday morning accident, where a 29-year-old man died and a woman sustained injuries.
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According to the police report, the driver who died ran a red light at Southwest Eighth Street while heading south on Southwest 42nd Avenue, aka LeJeune Road, at 3:40 a.m. Caro, who was driving a 2023 Chevrolet Tahoe SUV west on Southwest Eighth Street, hit the victim’s 2013 Hyundai Sonata, which was redirected to the southwest corner of the intersection and collided with another car and then onto a palm tree.