Texas man wanted in fatal Pennsylvania crash arrested in Louisiana

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A routine traffic stop in Louisiana led to the arrest of a Texas man wanted in connection with a deadly hit-and-run in Pennsylvania.

A West Baton Rouge Parish deputy stopped a commercial box truck traveling westbound on I-10 around 8:20 a.m. Tuesday for traffic violations. The sheriff’s office reported the driver’s identity as Ameer Nassar, 25, of Houston, Texas, who was wanted by Pennsylvania State Police in connection with a Bethel Township hit-and-run crash killing a 33-year-old man on April 10.

According to the West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, the truck Nassar was driving at the time of the stop was linked to the crash…

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