A hit-and-run suspect who allegedly fled the country after killing a 15-year-old Queens boy more than seven years ago is back in New York after being arrested in Spain, cops said.
Paula Bartolo, 56, was picked up by Spanish authorities on Monday and returned to New York last night to face manslaughter charges in the gruesome death of Jeffrey Javier, a developmentally disabled teen from Ozone Park, back in 2005.
Javier was crossing the intersection at Rockaway Blvd. and 101st Street on Oct. 26, 2005 while on his way to school when Bartolo allegedly became upset with how slowly the boy was walking, gunned his gas and ran him over with his Chevy Corsica, according to witnesses who were at the scene.
Bartolo allegedly didn’t stop there.
He then put his car in reverse and ran the teen over a second time before fleeing the scene, sources said.
Javier died a few days later after his parents decided to take him off life support. The teen was just shy of his 16th birthday.
Bartolo is believed to have initially fled to his native Guatemala after the crime, as police had suspected. But the seven year search came to a close after police discovered Bartolo’s travel itinerary included several trips back and forth to Spain, where he was collared.