Crime & Safety
Woman Charged With Dragging Boy With Car For 5 Blocks
The boy was riding a bicycle when he was hit, flew onto the hood of the car, was run over and dragged. Go Fund Me account for the boy.
OAKLAND, CA — Alameda County prosecutors have charged a 36-year-old Oakland woman with three felonies in connection with the Jan. 2 hit-and-run accident that left a 14-year-old Oakland boy with serious injuries, according to court papers filed Friday afternoon.
Leah Yoshiko Conner was being held in the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin Sunday night, and scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday morning at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland.
Jail booking records indicate Conner was arrested at approximately 8 a.m. Saturday.
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Conner faces three felony counts - assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury, reckless driving with serious injury and leaving the scene of an accident.
The accident occurred at about 12:23 p.m. Jan. 2, as Conner was driving south in the 1100 block of 35th Avenue. Court documents indicate the 14-year-old boy rode his bicycle into Conner's path; the boy rolled onto Conner's hood, court documents said, and then onto the pavement.
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Conner then allegedly drove over the boy and dragged him about five blocks. Conner stopped briefly, court papers said, and the boy became dislodged from underneath the car.
Documents than contend Conner drove into a nearby driveway, and that she and her passenger exchanged places there. Both occupants of the car got out again to look at the boy before they got back in the car and drove away, without helping the boy, according to court records.
The boy, identified as Carlos, has undergone multiple surgeries and is recovering, according to a Go Fund Me page started by his uncle Errico Bachicha.
The Go Fund Me campaign has raised over $52,000 of the $100,000 sought to help with Carlos' recovery.
Court records indicate Conner was on probation after an October conviction in Sonoma County for driving under the influence and causing injury.
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