Two collisions were investigated by Holbrook police officers during the period of Feb. 25 – March 3, according to dispatcher reports.
At 1:13 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25, officers responded to a call for assistance from a woman who had driven her vehicle off the road and was confused. Coordinates took the officers to Golf Course Road and the vehicle, driven by Nidia Yera, 54, of Hialeah, Flor., was later found in the wash off Broadcast Lane. When officers arrived, they found Yera’s vehicle had sustained extensive damage, with parts of the vehicle found near two locations where the fence that had been driven through. Yera stated she had no knowledge of what had happened aside from exiting the freeway because she thought that she had heard a pop and that something was wrong with her tires. Yera was arrested for two counts each of criminal damage, failure to notify after striking a fixture and failure to remain at the scene of a collision. Yera was booked into the Navajo County Jail.
At 11:15 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, a two-vehicle, non-injury collision occurred on Navajo Blvd. at the Exit 286 offramp. The vehicles involved were a red Chevy Suburban driven by Marie Picciano, 41, of Goodyear and a gray Mitsubishi Outlander Sport driven by Matthew Little, 50, of Chandler. According to the report, Little was traveling south on Navajo Blvd. when Picciano, who was at the offramp stop sign, pulled forward in front of him and the vehicles collided. Little’s vehicle was towed from the scene and Picciano was cited for failure to yield.
