Chilean prison officer charged in fatal hit-and-run, detained

An active Gendarmería lieutenant was placed in preventive detention after being charged in a fatal hit-and-run on the road between Copiapó and Tierra Amarilla. The officer, assigned to the Copiapó Penitentiary Center, allegedly fled the scene and later worked at a Te Deum event. The case is in early judicial stages; the officer's identity and specific charges beyond the hit-and-run are not fully detailed.