Crime & Safety
South San Francisco Teen Nabbed In Hit-And-Run, Police Say
Police say the teen then tried to file a false police report that he'd been carjacked.
SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — Police in San Bruno were busy late Wednesday night dealing with separate crashes that both ended with people in custody.
The first crash was reported at 11:06 p.m. in the 800 block of Hensley Avenue as a hit-and-run. Police said a Scion tC sedan had crashed into several parked vehicles and witnesses saw several people flee from the scene.
According to police, not long afterward, a call came into dispatch reporting that a person had been carjacked not far from the scene of the crash. An investigation determined the caller had not been carjacked, but rather was the Scion driver, 19-year-old South San Francisco resident Carlos Enrique Gomez Perez.
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Police said Perez was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run and filing a false police report and was booked into San Mateo County Jail.
Passengers that were in the Scion were injured and transported to a hospital.
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The second crash was reported at 11:23 p.m. at the intersection of Sneath Lane and Huntington Avenue. Police said one motorist rear-ended another, and the driver who caused the collision, 36-year-old Chun Yuen Wong of Emeryville, was suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Police said Wong was taken to a hospital and her case will be forwarded to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.
Anyone with information on either case is asked to call San Bruno police at (650) 616-7100 or to email sbpdtipline@sanbruno.ca.gov.
— By Bay City News Service
