Fulgencio is booked after a Benjamin hit-and-run.

A hit-and-run and DUI booking stack, and a reported breath number, are investigation claims and process. They are not a finding that every element is proved, including that this driver caused the pedestrian's injuries. Gabriel Fulgencio, 23, of Santaquin, was booked into the Utah County Jail.

KSL, citing a Utah County Sheriff's Office booking affidavit, says deputies were called Sunday morning, Sept. 20, 2026, to the area of 3100 West and 7300 South in Benjamin. The call was that a man walking on the road was struck by a black Ram pickup that did not stop. The affidavit says the pedestrian suffered substantial bodily injury and was taken to a hospital in critical condition. A deputy responding to the scene spotted a black pickup with front-end damage and pulled it over. A damaged truck near a reported strike is a lead. It is not proof of causation.

Fulgencio told deputies he was coming back from a get-together at a friend's house, that he may have been in an accident, and that he may have hit something but was not sure. He said he was driving, hit something, and did not stop because he was scared. Deputies described his reaction as shock when he was told the thing he may have hit was a person. He was arrested about 9:30 a.m. He said he stopped drinking about 4 a.m. The affidavit says he agreed to standardized field sobriety tests and that the deputy saw enough clues to call him impaired and unsafe to drive. A breath test measured 0.139 percent, which KSL reported as nearly three times the legal limit. Those are statement and test claims. He was booked for investigation of negligently operating a vehicle causing serious injury, leaving the scene of an injury accident, drug possession, DUI, and use of drug paraphernalia. Booked for investigation is a jail caption. It is not a conviction, and a breath number does not prove he caused the injuries. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.