MONONGALIA COUNTY, W.Va. — Police arrested the wrong person during the search for a driver facing negligent homicide charges in a crash that happened in Cheat Lake in January, reports say.
Kevin C. Lataille of Fayette County was found dead inside his submerged vehicle in Cheat Lake in January.
Charges were filed against Sukhjinder Singh, of New York. Singh is a tractor-trailer driver who is accused of knocking Lataille and his vehicle off a bridge and into the lake while driving recklessly in hazardous winter weather conditions.
On Wednesday, the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office said Singh had been arrested in Phoenix, Arizona.
According to our affiliates at WBOY, the man arrested in Arizona was not Singh. The sheriff’s office told them the man had a similar name and “similar features.” That man is no longer in custody.
WBOY reports the real Singh was taken into custody on Thursday in California.
Channel 11 has reached out to the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office for clarification and has not heard back.
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