Suspected hit and run driver charged

AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) - Andrea Glinski is pleading not guilty, but prosecutors did not want her out on bail.

Thirty-year-old Andrea Glinksi, the promotions director at Entercom Communications is charged with a hit and run that left Amy Stewart in critical condition, and Rachel Baird seriously injured, but now reported in good condition.

Prosecutors believe Glinski is a flight risk, because of the nature of the charges.

Erie County Assistant District Attorney Kelly Omel said, "We are requesting that the defendant be held without bail."

Glinksi had no history of arrests, according to her attorney Paul Cambria. Amherst Town Justice Mark Ferrell set bail at $100,000 dollars.

Defense attorney Paul Cambria said, "It's so out of character that she would be involved in something like this."

Amherst Police say they had a small piece of the grill from Glinksi's black Jeep Liberty as evidence.

Auto parts stores had been put on alert, and when Wally's Big Tree Collision in Hamburg placed it's order for parts for the sport utility vehicle, a worker at a company called Parts Channel put Wally's on alert.

The police work had paid off.

Amherst Police Department Captain Patrick McKenna said, "We do a thorough job and we were extensively looking into all these possibilities, and it worked for us."

Hit and run victim Rachel Baird, a Daemen College student told News 4 she was "obviously happy" with the arrest, and said, "The main thing is me getting been better, and that my friend is better."

Special support pins have been made for Amy Stewart, a Daemen graduate and University at Buffalo graduate student. Reverend Francis Mazur has known Amy most of her life and once served as her parish priest on Grand Island. Erie County Medical

Center Chaplain Rev. Francis Mazur said, "So many people have been coming; young people as well as adults, who were touched somehow by Amy."

Daemen College President Doctor Martin Anisman said, "Everyone comments on her caring nature and her strength, and her mom and father too, both, believe strongly that that strength is going to pull her through."

Amherst Police say Andrea Glinski's boyfriend was a passenger in her car during the hit and run early lost Saturday morning.

They say he knew somebody was hit.

So far, he has not been charged.