Eric Hartley: Making the police do their job

It was a quick call: a parked car struck at 1 a.m. by a hit-and-run driver. Nobody hurt.

Called to the scene downtown, Annapolis police Officer Gregory Fabela gave the victim, Kristen Allison, an incident number for her insurance company and probably thought that was the end of it.

Which it would have been, except for the fact that Ms. Allison's boyfriend, Ryan Bagwell, wouldn't let it go. Since police weren't interested, he took it upon himself to crack the case, matching a witness description of the striking pickup with a county police report of an unrelated drunken crash a short time later in Arnold.

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