
Miami man arrested in fatal hit-and-run where 82-year-old man thrown 150 feet
The sheriff's office said 36-year-old Isaleb Anofils was driving his 2020 Nissan Maxima recklessly and at a high rate of speed heading south on Northwest Seventh Avenue approaching Northwest 115th Street around 3:40 a.m. on Sunday, June 29. He struck 82-year-old Austin Noel, who was crossing the street.
The impact caused Noel to be thrown about 150 feet away on the road, according to Anofils' arrest report. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Anofils then lost control of his car, striking a raised center median before coming to a stop in the intersection of Northwest Seventh Avenue and 112th Street, the report states.
Without calling 911, Anofils ran away, police say.
Detectives arrested Anofils Wednesday at 411 N. Miami Ave., his arrest report said.
Anofils was booked at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on charges of leaving the scene of an accident that caused death and vehicular homicide. A judge set his bond at $27,500, according to court records.
Anofils was sentenced to four years in federal prison in 2021 after he and another man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to court documents. He is serving a five-year supervised release sentence from that conviction.
According to a U.S. Attorney's Office press release, Anofils and a man named Donyell Garland conspired to defraud several federally insured banks from Jan. 1, 2018, to April 9, 2018. They used a combination of cell phone spoofing apps and websites to obtain personally identifiable information of their victims, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
They used the information to conduct 287 fraudulent ATM transactions at Tallahassee-area banks, stealing or attempting to steal more than $151,000 from 47 different bank customers, the feds said.
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