GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A man accused of causing a hit-and-run crash without a license is due in court later this month for a pre-trial hearing.
51-year-old Robert L. Hendricks Sr. is charged with hit-and-run and operating motor vehicle while revoked, both misdemeanor counts.
According to the criminal complaint, Brown County Sheriff’s deputies were called for a hit-and-run crash that happened at Velp Avenue and Riverview Drive in Howard back on August 9, 2014.
Deputies met with the driver of the struck vehicle, who had tried to follow the truck that hit her onto Lacona Court.
According to the victim, she was driving north on Velp at Riverview in the right lane. She said a silver Dodge Ram was in the left lane and move into her line as she was going by, slamming into her driver side doors with the front passenger side of the truck.
The victim explained to deputies that a car had been stopped in the left lane, in front of the truck, waiting to turn left onto Riverview. She said the man driving the truck spun around to go westbound onto Riverview from Velp. A driver in another vehicle at that intersection stuck their head out of their window and yelled that the truck was getting away.
She then told deputies she went westbound on Riverview to catch up to the truck and caught up to it because the truck was behind another vehicle. The victim the laid on her horn and the truck turned onto Lacona Court and pulled over.
She and the male driver both got out of their vehicles and the man admitted he didn’t stop because he didn’t have a license. She then asked for his information. He showed her a driver’s license for a woman, claiming she was the owner of the truck. The man then showed a Wisconsin photo ID card identifying him as Robert L. Hendricks.
Hendricks asked when he could leave, and the victim told him that the police were coming. He said she could call him to get damage taken care of and got into his truck and drove westbound on Riverview.
Authorities made contact with the woman who owned the pickup truck. She said she lent the truck to Hendricks and her son to go boating and wasn’t aware that the vehicle had been involved in a crash.
The next day, the woman called deputies saying that she had not heard from Hendricks and the truck had not been returned. The truck was later found at the municipal boat launch in Green Bay, but Hendricks was nowhere to be found.
Hendricks had his license revoked thanks to 4 prior convictions for OWI.
On April 4, 2016, Hendricks was booked into Brown County Jail on both misdemeanor charges. He posted $1,000 bond the next day and was released.
Hendricks is due back in court April 28 for his pre-trial hearing. If convicted of both counts, he faces 18 months in prison and $3,500 in fines.
