Deputies said on Monday that Rene Solorio, 35, was arrested last week and has been booked into the Vista Detentional Facility on a felony hit-and-run charge. He is being held on $200,00 bail.
Shortly after the crash, officials said the registered owner of the SUV was not the suspect, but that they believed someone borrowed the SUV and that the owner may know who the driver was. The suspect at the time was described as a 6-foot-tall man in his 30s with short hair and an approximately 4-inch beard. Solorio is, in fact, 5 feet 8 inches tall.
After the crash, Rosie’s Cafe then-manager, Sandy Nelbroski, said Pilsbury had suffered horrible injuries in the crash.
VISTA
A little more than a year after a hit-and-run crash nearly killed the owner of an Escondido cafe featured on the Food Network series “Restaurant: Impossible,” Vista sheriff’s deputies have arrested the suspected driver.
Rene Solorio, 35, remained jailed in lieu of $200,000 bail Monday, a week after his arrest in connection with the December 2019 crash that left Kaitlyn Rose Pilsbury in a coma.
Pilsbury, 34, was the owner of Rosie’s Cafe, which has since permanently closed after the one-two punch of the crash and the restaurant shutdowns ordered the following year to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Sheriff’s officials announced Solorio’s arrest Monday he was taken into custody on a warrant Jan. 4 but did not say what led them to suspect he was the driver.