The suspect in the alleged hit-and-run collision that killed Yucca Valley teen Joshua Barreras is expected to turn himself in at the Joshua Tree Court next Tuesday (February 27), a situation that has many residents of the hi-desert asking why he was not arrested immediately.
Earlier this week, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department identified Troy Reynolds, a 57 year-old Yucca Valley resident, as the primary suspect in what is alleged to be a hit-and-run that occurred on January 26. The victim, Joshua Barreras, a 16 year-old Yucca Valley teen, was found unresponsive in the center median of Twentynine Palms Highway near Avalon Ave. Barreras was pronounced dead at a hospital later that night.
When the Sheriff’s Department identified Reynolds as the suspect in the collision, they said that he made extensive efforts to conceal his involvement in the collision, and that he even had parts of the tow-truck alleged to have struck Barreras removed at a Riverside County body shop.
The Sheriff’s Department’s original statement said that the conditions of Reynolds’ surrender is “through agreement with his defense counsel and the District Attorney.”
Z107.7 reached out to the Sheriff’s Department regarding the surrender agreement, to which a spokesperson replied, “Our investigators were in the process of obtaining an arrest warrant for Reynolds when we were made aware of the agreement made between the DA’s Office and the defense attorney.
The San Bernardino County District Attorney declined to share the specifics of Reynolds’ agreement, saying only that “Arrangements between counsel regarding surrenders and set arraignments do happen and are done so on a case by case basis.”
Stay tuned to Z107.7 for coverage of the arrest of Troy Reynolds at San Bernardino County’s Joshua Tree Courthouse on February 27.
