A man accused of driving away from the scene after fatally striking another person faces three criminal counts.

Michael Thomas Mestas, 41, of Rockfield, is due to be arraigned Monday in Warren Circuit Court after a grand jury indicted him on charges of vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of an accident with death or serious physical injury and tampering with physical evidence.

Mestas is alleged to have fatally struck Terry Zweig, 46, of Bowling Green, with his vehicle on Louisville Road.

Zweig, who was documented riding a bicycle before he was struck, was found dead Jan. 18 just off Louisville Road.

An autopsy found that Zweig had multiple injuries consistent with a vehicle collision.

A grand jury that met Wednesday added the vehicular homicide count against Mestas, a criminal charge that can be returned if a person is suspected of having been intoxicated while driving and causing another person’s death.

The Bowling Green Police Department investigated the fatality, gathering video surveillance footage from the area as well as debris from the crash site to help officers establish that a Dodge pickup truck struck Zweig.

Images of the truck and the suspected driver were posted Jan. 30 on BGPD’s Facebook page, leading to several tips identifying the man as Mestas, which resulted in his arrest that same night on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident/failure to render aid or assistance (with death or serious physical injury).

Warren District Court Judge Kim Geoghegan added the evidence tampering charge against Mestas after hearing testimony at a preliminary hearing indicating that Mestas deleted some text messages from his phone near the time of the incident and ordered a tire to replace one on his truck that had been damaged.

At the preliminary hearing in February, BGPD Detective Matthew Poore testified that surveillance footage showed the truck traveling on Louisville Road toward Bowling Green and that after the truck passed Bristow Road, video footage showed damage to the passenger side headlight and mirror that was not evident before the truck reached that intersection.

Police collected footage of the truck stopped outside UV Liquors outside Louisville Road with a man believed to be Mestas walking around outside the vehicle.

Poore said that, within an hour of BGPD posting the images outside UV Liqours, tips started coming in.

“Three or four tips were from individuals that called into dispatch and some more tips came in on our Crimestoppers line,” Poore said.

Mestas was contacted by BGPD and agreed to come to police headquarters to speak with detectives.

Poore testified that Mestas told police that the damage to his headlight occurred three weeks prior in Summer Shade, his passenger side mirror was damaged by a falling tree outside his home and his tire was damaged about two weeks earlier while on Louisville Road.

Mestas acknowledged the truck in the post on BGPD’s Facebook page was his vehicle, but he invoked his right to an attorney when asked to elaborate on the damages his truck sustained, Poore said.

Police seized Mestas’ cell phone and were able to talk with two people who said they were in contact with him the night of the incident.

One man told police that Mestas was in Glasgow with him the night of Jan. 17, and that they split a pitcher of margaritas at a restaurant there before going to a bar in Glasgow, where the man estimated that Mestas had four or five beers and three or four shots, Poore said.

Police reviewing Mestas’ phone also contacted an ex-girlfriend who was on a call with him the night of Jan. 17.

“(The ex-girlfriend) said (Mestas) did sound intoxicated and had slurred speech,” Poore said.

Mestas remains in Warren County Regional Jail under a $10,000 cash bond.