Death of Fairbanks man in crashed car draws suspicion

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – Alaska State Troopers are reviewing the death of a 56-year-old Fairbanks man whom they initially thought had been killed in a traffic crash.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports troopers are trying to figure out if Jose Santiago’s death is a connected to a rolled-up piece of carpeting that was dragged by his car on the night he died.

Security camera footage Nov. 21 shows Santiago’s white Volvo station wagon dragging the rolled-up carpet toward a busy street in north Fairbanks.

Just after 7 p.m., troopers found Santiago dead in the car on a rural road west of Fairbanks.

A trooper announcement that night said the Volvo drove down an embankment and crashed into an elevated driveway. The announcement said Santiago had been ejected into the passenger’s side floor board.
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Information from: Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner, http://www.newsminer.com