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Mans Body Dragged Through Queens and Brooklyn

By Conaway and Strickler

The nydailytimes.com website reported in a story on February 11th, that Manual Gaspar Latuna Sanchez, a cargo van driver, inadvertently struck and picked up a body that had already been hit, dragging it for 17 miles. According to police reports an SUV first hit a man trying to cross at 108th St. in Corona, Queens and ended nearly an hour later when someone finally was able to get the van driver?s attention. Smelling something burning Sanchez did pull over to check the van but did not notice anything wrong. Raymond Kelly, police commissioner, said that the driver continued driving for nearly an hour until finally waved down in Brighton. Kelly said, ?People were signaling him to stop the vehicle. That?s when the body is discovered under his car...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).