Cobb Officer Injured in Hit and Run

A Marietta driver was arrested and charged with striking a Cobb County police officer in Kennesaw on Thursday night while driving drunk.

According to Sgt. Dana Pierce of the , the incident occurred about 11:20 p.m. as Officer A.M. Singleton made a traffic stop on Cobb Parkway just south of Greers Chapel Road.

Pierce said the traffic violator pulled over for the officer and stopped partially in the right northbound travel lane, causing Singleton to position his patrol car so that it blocked a portion of that right lane.

As Singleton completed the traffic stop and attempted to get back into the patrol car, ta black 2001 BMW 740i struck both the officer and his patrol car, Pierce said.

The driver of the BMW failed to stop or render aid and fled northbound on Cobb Parkway; the first traffic violator did assist the downed officer, Pierce said.

About 20 minutes later, officers at the scene observed a black BMW with right front damage driving southbound on Cobb Parkway. Officers from Cobb County’s DUI Task Force, VIPER and Precinct 1 stopped the vehicle.

Pierce said that after further investigation, the BMW's driver, 40-year-old Irving Alicea of Marietta, was arrested and charged with failure to move over for an emergency vehicle, driving under the influence of alcohol, and felony hit and run.

Alicea was not injured in the crash and was transported to the Cobb County Adult Detention Center. According to arrest records, he was released around 9:30 a.m. today on $30,000 bond.

Singleton sustained multiple broken bones and was transported by ambulance to with injuries to his right hand, knee and ankle, Pierce said. His injuries are not considered life-threatening.