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Chesterfield junior charged with leaving Sunday morning hit and run; Sources confirm victim is CMU student

By Ryan Czachorski on April 12, 2010 12:04 pm in Metro / 12 comments

 

A Chesterfield junior was charged today with leaving the scene of Sunday morning’s hit-and-run pedestrian accident.

Charles Scicluna, 21, could face up to five years in prison for the felony. He was also charged with operating while intoxicated causing serious injury, failure to stop at a property damage accident and reckless driving. He is scheduled for a preliminary examination at 8:15 a.m. Thursday in Isabella County Trial Court. The Central Michigan University student was arraigned earlier today before Judge William Rush.

Scicluna turned himself into Mount Pleasant Police Sunday afternoon, Public Information Officer Dave Sabuda said, just hours after he allegedly hit and dragged another man several hundred feet down East Bellows Street.

Police still have not released the name of the 20-year-old Mount Pleasant man who is listed in critical condition at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids today, but several other independent sources have confirmed the victim to be a CMU student.

At about 3 a.m. Sunday, the victim was pushing a car eastbound on Bellows with a relative when his car was sideswiped by the other vehicle, according to a news release from Mount Pleasant Police. He was taken to Central Michigan Community Hospital, then airlifted to Grand Rapids.

“After he was hit, the same car that had hit him, he ended up being pinned underneath and that’s how he ended up being dragged,” Sabuda said Sunday.

Portions of Bellows Street were blocked off on both sides of Mission Street in the early morning hours Sunday, as police processed evidence and recreated the crime scene.

Check cm-life.com for more updates.

 

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  • Future

    Say bye to the parties at CMU, don't drop the soap and convert to Islam.
    Total coward to do a hit and run and how do you not notice you're dragging a dude?

  • student

    at least he turned himself in

  • Tony

    This kid's life is ruined – Any time someone searches his name from here on out, this article will come up, and any employer or girlfriend will dump him immediately.

  • Andrew

    Real cool releasing his name, Ryan. Totally respectful to Chuck. What kind of idiot pushes their broken car down Bellows at 3am? Anyone think about that?

  • Josh_Gibbons

    So?

  • Jake_D

    If he didn't want people to know about the crimes he committed then he shouldn't have committed the crimes. Besides, I'm not all that worried about being respectful to, or worrying about the feelings of the drunk driver who did the hit-and-run, or whether or not his life is ruined, so much as I care about the person who's life he endangered…that bit about being in critical condition has a chance to ruin the VICTIM'S life (the victim being the one who didn't do anything to deserve having his life ruined) far worse than the perpetrator's. Yes, it was the right thing to do to turn himself in later on, but quite frankly it's too little, too late.

  • Jake_D

    Oh yeah and to Andrew,

    What kind of idiot sides with drunk driver then calls the person who wasn't doing anything wrong an idiot?

  • Rob Hayes

    I'm kind of torn about releasing the guy's name…on the one hand, you're right–it isn't fair to add to the torment that he is already feeling about this situation.

    However, the victim's rights come first. How was Charles being fair to anyone by driving drunk? I think that he should just be thankful that the other guy wasn't killed.

  • Jackie

    What kind of animal hits a person? Did you think about that?

  • Jackie

    When you make poor decisions, you get poor results

  • youreallycantbeserious

    So if you were in the victim's shoes, you would just leave your car, that is out of gas, in the middle of the road for someone to drive right into? The victim wasn't pushing it down the road, He and his friend were pushing it off to the side of the road so they could go get gas.

    WHAT KIND OF IDIOT GETS IN A CAR DRUNK? AND WHAT KIND OF IDIOTS LET THEIR FRIEND DRIVE OFF FROM A PARTY DRUNK? ANYONE WHO WAS WITH CHARLES AND WATCHED HIM GET IN HIS CAR DRUNK IS ALSO AT FAULT. SOMEONE COULD HAVE OFFERED TO DRIVE HIM OR CALL HIM A CAB.

    On a different note, at least the victim's family is recognizing this to be an accident and is not placing blame on anyone particularly. I know that makes them better people than I am. That also makes them better people than most of you.

  • Jeff

    Chuck isnt an animal. He just had a lot of problems. I am not defending what he did. He was totally wrong. all I am saying is you dont know him and hes not an animal he just made poor choices.