SALINA —Law enforcement authorities investigating a reported hit and run incident have made an arrest.
Just after 5:30p.m. Wednesday, police responded to the 1200 Block of Andrew Avenue in Salina, according to Police Captain Paul Forrester
Officers found Ronika Trembley, 45, of Salina, lying in the roadway with a large amount of blood around her.
Trembley had been visiting with a 23-year-old from Minneapolis, in the front yard of a residence when a blue, four-door Dodge Ram 1500 pickup, with a Kansas tag and the numbers 800, pulled up and three younger occupants, two men and a woman, asked for some street addresses, according to Forrester.
Trembley went out to the pickup to talk with the trio. At some point during the conversation, she walked in front of the vehicle and the pickup took off, striking Trembley and also a 2005 Chevrolet Venture van.
Trembley suffered from a head injury. EMS transported her Salina Regional Health Center. She was later transported to a Wichita hospital.
During the investigation, police uncovered evidence that led them to believe that the incident possibly was a drug transaction that had gone bad, according to Forrester. Police received information that Koltton Glavin, 24, of Beverly, was the driver of the pickup and that the pickup was at a south Salina restaurant. Officers responded to that location, Glavin exited the restaurant, and was taken into custody.
Through the investigation, police learned that Glavin had been contacted by one of the women at the Andrew Avenue address who wanted to purchase methamphetamine, Forrester explained. When Glavin and the other two arrived in the pickup at the Andrew Avenue location, they presented Trembley with what was presumed to be ice cream salt and they were paid $450, Forrester said. Trembley then realized that what they had sold her was not methamphetamine and she attempted to grab onto the pickup as Glavin drove off, Forrester explained.
Trembley remains in a Wichita hospital with a head injury, facial lascerations, and a broken pelvis, he said.
Glavin is being held on requested charges, aggravated battery, distribution of a simulated controlled substance, theft by deception, criminal damage to property
Charges for the other two occupants of the pickup are forthcoming, according to Forrester.