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A Grand Rapids-area woman who police say was drunk when she crashed her SUV in Spring Lake Township on Memorial Day with six children in the vehicle was formally charged Tuesday.
Updated: 10:39 AM EDT May 19, 2021
HOLLAND, Michigan After a 20-month investigation, detectives with the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office have taken a man into custody for his alleged involvement in a fatal hit-and-run crash.
Police say Sebastian Abel Villarreal, who was 22 at the time, was the driver in a September 2019 hit-and-run crash that killed 41-year-old Melissa Yates. Investigators say a fight broke out between two sets of people in a Holland parking lot. During the fight, Yates was knocked to the ground and was hit with the front end of the vehicle, a 2016 Dodge Charger. Yates later died from her injuries.
Police Chase on North Sides Ends in Crash, Arrest By Gary Stevens
May 12, 2021 | 7:28 PM
PARK TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – A 27-year-old Grand Rapids man is in the Ottawa County Jail, awaiting arraignment on charges stemming from a stolen vehicle chase on Holland’s North Side that ended in a crash on Wednesday (May 12, 2021) morning.
According to Ottawa County Sheriff’s Sergeant Brad Bennett, deputies were dispatched to the 2100 block of Mariacoba Drive just before 10 AM on a report of a vehicle that had just been stolen. The officers were already in the area when the report came in, so they didn’t have to go far to spot the vehicle in question.