Trooper's 'shoe leather' detective work credited in hit and run arrest

An image captured by the surveillance camera moments before the accident.

By Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff

A 27-year-old former Winthrop woman is to be arraigned Monday in Suffolk Superior Court in the hit and run death of a man a little more than a year ago on Ocean Avenue in Revere.

Milena Henao faces charges in the death of 61-year-old George Azaria on Dec. 31, 2006.

Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley says Henao was arrested last week in New York City. The arrest was the product of dogged "shoe leather" detective work by State Trooper Joel Balducci, he said.

Police started the investigation with little more than grainy images from a city of Revere surveillance camera.

"Where high technology left our questions unanswered, Trooper Balducci dug in and kept searching," Conley said in a statement.

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