Hit and run arrest

A man accused of being involved in a fender-bender with a sheriff's deputy last week now faces charges after the deputy reported that he fled the accident, according to news releases from the Ector County Sheriff's Office and from the Odessa Police Department.

Zachary Villarreal, 18, turned himself over at 2:50 p.m.Thursday to deputy Mike McCleery, the same deputy whose car he reportedly collided with on June 16 at North West County Road and Judy Street. Villarreal now faces a felony count of evading arrest in a motor vehicle as well as a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident in connection to last week's crash .

According to earlier releases, a Pontiac Trans Am rear-ended McCleery's squad car while it was stopped on Judy Street on June 16, then took off when the uninjured deputy tried to approach it. The next day, a suspect later identified as Villarreal was arrested on unrelated charges on June 17 after someone tipped deputies off to someone involved in that hit-and-run crash.

Villarreal posted a $2,500 bond Thursday afternoon on the charge.