Couple allegedly killed girl getting candy for her birthday in hit-and-run, then burned car
Blanca Iris de Mari Escobar-Roblero and Wilmer Morales-Roblero allegedly killed a 12-year-old girl in a hit-and-run crash then "excessively burned' their car
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A married couple from North Carolina was arrested after the 27-year-old wife allegedly killed a 10-year-old girl in a hit-and-run collision last year and had her 26-year-old husband drive the vehicle to a remote area and set it on fire to try to cover it up.
Blanca Iris de Mari Escobar-Roblero and Wilmer Morales-Roblero were taken into custody on Thursday and charged with multiple felonies in the November 2022 incident that left Samantha Briggs dead a day after her 12th birthday, authorities announced.
Escobar-Roblero is facing one count of felony hit-and-run resulting in serious injury or death and one count of felony obstruction of justice, records reviewed by Law&Crime show. Morales-Roblero was charged with one count of felony accessory after the fact to a hit-and-run and one count of felony obstruction of justice.