Monday, a tip provided to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office by a citizen who saw a request for information on the department’s Facebook page led directly to an arrest in a hit-and-run incident that had occurred Sunday evening shortly after 10 p.m. in the 2100 block of Peppers Ferry Road.
Deputies from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office had answered the call to the crash scene and discovered two pedestrians, a female and a male in a wheelchair, who had been struck by a vehicle that had fled the scene.
Both pedestrians had serious injuries and were flown to Roanoke Memorial Hospital for treatment. As of the last update per the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, the female victim was in stable condition and the male victim was in critical condition. Their names were not released.
Deputies began a search for an early 2000’s model Chevrolet truck or SUV with extensive damage to the front passenger side. At the time of the incident, the vehicle would have been traveling from Christiansburg toward Pulaski.
With the citizen’s tip in hand Monday, sheriff’s deputies located the suspect vehicle, a white Chevrolet 1500 truck, at Massie’s Mobile Home Park, approximately two miles from the scene of the accident.
After speaking with the owner and several other witnesses, deputies took 23-year-old Travis
Castillo of Christiansburg into custody and charged him with two counts of felony hit-and-run with bodily injury.
Castillo is currently being held at the Montgomery County Jail with no bond.
