A fiery Corvette crash, a missing driver clad in all black and a family group chat that somehow migrated to real life all played starring roles in a Saturday evening misadventure we first reported yesterday.

Bennito Bruno Servian, 26, was arrested Saturday night, accused of crashing an orange Chevrolet Corvette into a field near Hogenes Boulevard and Rainbow Drive in the Maricopa Meadows. He left behind a trail of scorched grass and busted guardrails.

The incident started around 5:30 p.m., when officers responded to reports of a single-vehicle crash with the Corvette burning in the field. Witnesses told police a man about 6 feet tall with black hair, dressed head-to-toe in black, grabbed a bag from the smoking car and bolted into a nearby neighborhood.

A records check led officers to a local residence, where a woman identified as Lilly Kobasic-Vondra told officers she believed Servian had slipped inside moments earlier but refused to fetch him, citing “discomfort with the situation.”

At the residence, Servian’s wife, Talesa, told police she had received a call from her husband after the crash asking for a pickup. She said she had showed up at the scene in time to see him grab a bag and sprint away. She remained on the phone urging him to return, but Servian, according to police, feared he’d be taken away from his son.

Then Servian’s mother arrived at the police dispatch location and entered the conversation. She urged her son to speak with officers, though reportedly declined his request to “come upstairs” as though this were a family reunion instead of a police investigation.

Eventually, with family consent, officers made their way into the home and searched for Servian, who declined to answer questions without his lawyer after his capture. Officers arrested him, but during the walk to the patrol car Servian changed his mind and indicated he might be open to talking after all.

Once Mirandized and seated in the back of the patrol vehicle, Servian ultimately declined again, telling officers he needed to know whether giving a statement would affect “going to jail or staying with his family,” according to official reports.

Police say the Corvette’s blaze of glory left more than $1,000 in damage, including two mangled guardrails, one ripped straight out of the concrete, and approximately 300 yards of grass torn up by the car’s final rally-race attempt across a field.

Earlier this month, Servian caught a separate speeding charge in Maricopa, according to Western Pinal Justice Court records. He agreed to participate in a defensive driving course to correct his problem driving at a hearing Nov. 12, just 10 days before his Corvette crashed and burned.

Servian faces fresh charges of fleeing the scene of an accident and criminal damage.