Heads-up police work by one Omaha Police Officer leads to arrests in two recent fatal hit-and-run crashes.

Channel Six News talked with Officer Adam Rokes about how he tracked down the suspects.

"You hear the call come out...you go and try to do what you can to find them," Officer Adam Rokes said.

Nine days ago, 57-year-old Jose Sandoval was mowed down while riding a bicycle hear 37th and Q Street.

The suspect vehicle was found at a home near 27th and F a short time later.

19-year-old Tomas de la Cruz-Prado was charged with Sandoval's death.

Sunday morning, 33-year-old Vernon Burton was killed while changing a tire along Storz Expressway.

The driver of the SUV, 36-year-old Scott Ruffcorn is arrested within hours in Burton's death.

Both run-away suspects found by Officer Rokes.

"Your family member is hit and killed by a run driver and as a police officer you have a duty to go out and find that individual and put yourself in the family's shoes...you want that guy found," Officer Rokes said.

A 22-year police veteran Rokes said luck was involved...but so was solid police work.

With no witnesses to this weekend's hit and run police used a computer and matched up front end parts left at the scene. then Officer Rokes went to work.

"My first instinct when I went to the accident scene was that vehicle had got to be down someplace around the carter lake area," Rokes said. "The time of morning and I'm thinking in my head that car's down there and I'm going to find it.

"I started at the airport and worked my way west hoping to find the vehicle and I got lucky. I hope this helps with the family and their closure but at the same time I hope the individuals that caused these accidents pay the price for it," Rokes said.

Officer Rokes is convinced that if the SUV that hit Burton wasn't located yesterday morning --- it never would be found.

He says information from citizens helped locate the pick-up that hit Sandoval.

In both cases, Officer Rokes says he believes the suspects knew they had hit someone.