Police: Cyclist injured, Petaluma man arrested in hit-and-run crash

A Petaluma man was arrested Saturday in connection with a hit-and-run collision that injured a cyclist on the city’s east side the previous day, police said.

Just before 8:10 p.m. Friday, police and fire personnel responded to reports that a vehicle and a cyclist had collided at Caulfield Lane, just west of South McDowell Boulevard, according to a Petaluma Police Department news release.

The cyclist had been thrown nearly 40 feet after a passing car sideswiped his bike, police said.

A witness told police the driver fled the scene in a silver sports car, leaving a 68-year-old male cyclist on the ground with cuts on his legs, face and arms, police said.

The unidentified cyclist was transported to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, police said.

The following day, police received a tip that a silver sports car matching the description of the suspect’s vehicle had been spotted on the 1600 block of San Marino Drive, police said.

Officers arrived to find a man, later identified as 34-year-old Kelman GarciaDeleon, examining damage on the vehicle. Though GarciaDeleon denied that he struck the cyclist, an involved party identified him as the driver, police said.

GarciaDeleon was booked into Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of hit-and-run with injury, police said.

Further details were not immediately available.