(Red Oak, Iowa) – (Updates with victim’s name) Police in Red Oak are asking for the public’s help in locating an unknown SUV involved in a hit-and-run accident that left a bicyclist critically injured. Authorities say at around 11:15-p.m. Sunday, 57-year-old Pablo Rivera, of Red Oak, was riding a bicycle southbound at the intersection of N. 8th and E. Corning Streets in Red Oak, when an eastbound SUV on Corning Street struck the man and left the scene of the accident. Rivera suffered serious injuries and was transported to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital before being flown by helicopter to the UNMC in Omaha.
If you saw or heard anything in the area at the time of the incident, please call Red Oak Police at 712-623-6500.
In other news, Red Oak Police report the arrest at around 8:10-p.m. Sunday, of 37-year-old Aaron Lucas Allen, from Red Oak. He was charged with Stalking/1st offense, Domestic Abuse Assault/1st offense, and Harassment in the 3rd Degree. Allen was being held without bond, in the Montgomery County Jail. And, at around 1:11-p.m. Sunday, Red Oak Police arrested 60-year-old Edward Michael Liford, of Red Oak, for Criminal Mischief in the 4th Degree. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond.