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Polk Driver Arrested In 14-Year-Old's Hit And Run Death

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By STEVEN GIRARDI | The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 30, 2008

  Joseph Nobles

MULBERRY - Polk County sheriff's deputies arrested a Lakeland man early today in the hit-and-run death of a 14-year-old boy.

Joseph Eugene Nobles, 54, of 1952 Vista View Drive, was arrested at his home this morning and charged with hit-and-run and leaving the scene of a fatal accident, the sheriff's office said.
Nobles was being held today without bail at Polk County Jail.

Deputies said Scotty Reeves was walking across State Road 60 in Mulberry on his way home from a store at about 12:20 a.m. The teenager was with friends and talking on his cell phone when we he was hit by a white pickup truck traveling east, sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie S. Rodgers said.

The truck fled, and Reeves' friends removed him from the road. Reeves, of 113 Cesara Drive, Mulberry, was pronounced at the scene, deputies reported.

Rodgers said a traffic stop about 30 minutes later led deputies to Nobles.

Deputy James Jordan stopped Nobles in his pickup truck at about 12:50 a.m. when he noticed the left headlight was broken. He had no information about the hit-and-run vehicle at the time, and released the driver with a warning, Rodgers said.

A short time later, when he heard the vehicle description, Jordan remembered Nobles' name and deputies drove to his home. They found the truck, with the damaged light and blood stains, but Nobles was not home, Rodgers said.

Deputies said Nobles had gone to a restaurant with his wife. When he returned, he told them he had been driving home from work on S.R. 60 and remembered hitting something, but did not stop, Rodgers said.

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