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LAKEPORT POLICE SEEKING WITNESSES ON MAJOR INJURY HIT AND RUN

DUI trailblazer with two pounds of pot ran into parked tractor trailer

DRUNK DRIVING COLLISION

At approximately 2:00 AM this morning. December 2, 2015, Lakeport Police Officers were dispatched to the area of N. Main and Ninth Streets to investigate the report of a hit and run vehicle collision involving a sport utility vehicle and a 18 wheeled truck. The reporting party advised that both vehicles were unoccupied.

While enroute to the collision scene, Officers were diverted to the report of an in progress disturbance in front of the Anchorage Inn less than a block away from the collision scene. Officers arrived at the Anchorage Inn and located two intoxicated male subjects, ages 23 & 24, who were both injured and had blood on their skin and clothing. Both subjects denied having any knowledge of the hit and run collision.

The Lakeport Fire Protection District (LFPD) was requested to respond to the scene to check both subject’s injuries while officers also responded to the collision scene to conduct an investigation.

Lakeport California Police Department

Officers determined that the unoccupied 18 wheeled rock truck had been parked facing south along the west curb of N. Main Street just south of Ninth Street when a black 2005 Chevrolet Trail Blazer traveling north in the northbound lane of N. Main Street, at a speed estimated to be at least 40 MPH, left its lane and traveled north-west across all lanes of N. Main Street and hit the rock truck head on.

Officers determined that the subjects from the Anchorage Inn call were in fact involved in the collision and had fled the scene immediately after it happened. Both subjects were transported to Sutter Lakeside Hospital for treatment with the driver, identified as Kevin Cody Hermo 23 of Kelseyville, CA, being arrested for felony drunk driving causing injury and felony hit and run with injury. A blood sample was taken from Hermo for testing for drugs or alcohol.

Due to the severity of the injuries sustained by Hermo and the male passenger, Sutter Lakeside staff had them both flown by helicopter to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital where they currently remain for treatment.

During the investigation, Officers also located approximately two pounds of suspected marijuana in the Trail Blazer which was impounded for further examination and processing for additional evidence.

This investigation is currently ongoing and we are asking that anyone who may have information on this incident to contact Officer Tyler Trouette or Sergeant Gary Basor at 707-263-5491 or by email at ttrouette@lakeportpolice.org or gbasor@lakeportpolice.org