PORT SHELDON TWP., MI (WHTC) – There are multiple media reports that a person who may have been involved in a hit-and-run incident north of Holland last week has turned himself in to authorities.
Television stations WOOD, WXMI, WWMT and WZZM all say that an unnamed 48-year-old West Olive man surrendered on Tuesday to the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department after detectives received a tip and a friend of the suspect helped convince the man to come forward. The incident last Friday evening on US-31 south of Stanton Street in Port Sheldon Township, in which a car making a Michigan turn pulled in front of a northbound motorcycle and drove off following a collision, led to numerous non-life threatening injuries for 36-year-old Richard Medacco of Muskegon.
The Sheriff’s Department claims that the suspect admitted drinking alcohol prior to the crash but will not disclose any other details, including the man’s name, pending formal charges being filed by the county prosecutor’s office and an arraignment in District Court.
