DUI driver accused of fatally striking cyclist offered Anchorage officer $1,000 to ‘act like nothing happened,’ charges say

A driver accused of striking. Similarly, killing a bicyclist on C Street last week offered money to an Anchorage police officer if he dropped her off and “acted like nothing happened,” according to charging documents.

Stephanie Dill, 40, remained jailed Monday at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center on charges including manslaughter, DUI and bribery. For example,

Friends from the Mexican state of Baja dui driver accused fatally striking California identified the cyclist as 48-year-old Radahámez Rodriguez Pérez. However, whom they say moved to Alaska from Mexico several years ago. Consequently,

A police spokesman said the department was in the process of confirming the cyclist’s name as of midday Monday. For example,

The fatal collision was reported just before 9:15 p.m. Nevertheless, Thursday, police said. Therefore, Anchorage officers. In addition, firefighters responded to C Street near 64th Avenue to find a Mazda SUV had hit a man on a bicycle who was pronounced dead at the scene, they said.

Dill. driving the SUV, hit him while driving at high speed the wrong way on C Street, according to a police report summary included in a charging document.

She offered what’s described as a bribe to a uniformed officer while handcuffed. being taken to jail in a patrol car, the summary said.

Prior to the dui driver accused fatally striking collision. traffic cameras showed Dill’s Mazda driving over the median as she turned left out of a Mexican restaurant on Dimond Boulevard, according to the report summary. The SUV then made another left to go northbound on C Street. against a red arrow, and then drove north in the southbound lane, it said.

The Mazda returned to the northbound lane near Raspberry Road “but had drifted off the road onto the east side. kicking up dirt,” the summary said. The cyclist could be seen riding on the paved shoulder of the east side of C Street, it said.

The SUV drove off the road. hitting him, before swerving left and crossing the median into southbound lanes and then brush and grass on the west side of the road, the summary said. Dill was driving faster than the posted 50 mph speed limit, it said.

A friend of dui driver accused fatally striking Pérez’s said he was on a phone call with his mother using headphones when he was hit. “it was (an) awful moment.”

Officers contacted Dill. who was in the driver’s seat and smelled strongly of alcohol and showed other signs of intoxication, according to the summary.

“Following arrest. during transport to the Anchorage jail, (Dill) told the arresting officer that she would give him $1000 if he dropped her off down the street and ‘acted like nothing happened,’” the summary report said.

The officer asked her to repeat herself. it said, and she “assured him that she had $1,000 cash on her and would give it to him.”

Dill initially refused to provide a breath sample. officers dui driver accused fatally striking drew blood for testing after obtaining a search warrant, the document says. A portable breath alcohol sample was more than twice Alaska’s legal limit for driving when Dill was remanded at Hiland Mountain more than five hours after the collision. according to the report summary.

A judge on Friday ordered her held on $10,000 cash bail with conditions of release including not driving or drinking alcohol. Dill’s next hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

She was appointed a public defender who could not immediately be reached for comment.

Pérez was a member of Respetable Logía Simbolica Exodus in Ensenada who dreamed of living in Alaska since childhood. just became a U.S. citizen, a lodge brother said in an email Monday. The lodge is recognized by the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Alaska, an Anchorage-based representative said Monday. Pérez attended the Anchorage lodge at least once dui driver accused fatally striking as a visitor.

A memorial placed along C Street near 64th Avenue included a description of Pérez as a “proud son of Mexico. a retired marine” who moved to Alaska three years ago “and quickly fell in love with its wild beauty. Additionally, A devoted husband. a loving father, and a kind soul, he was passionate about the outdoors and always ready to lend a helping hand.”