Elkhart County Prosecutor\'s Office

ELKHART, Ind.-- On Nov. 15 at approximately 7:08 P.M., Dispatch received reports of a vehicle, a green Mercury Mountaineer, leaving the scene of a crash at 60027 C.R. 11 in Elkhart.

A caller reported that a vehicle stopped on her property and had noticeable damage to the passenger side and a single male occupant, later identified as Jose Hernandez.

Hernandez told the caller that he had been involved in a motor vehicle accident and not to call the police.

Hernandez left the vehicle on the property on foot to "get a friend" and returned with Jose Delgado., the two attempted to get the vehicle to start.

When Ptl. Benjamin VanSickle and Ptl. J. Diaz arrived at approximately 7:18 P.M., they observed Hernandez sitting passenger as Delgado sat in the drive

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