Four Oaks — Police here have reinstated old charges against a Smithfield man charged earlier this spring with striking and killing a 7-year-old boy just outside town limits.

Police Chief Danny Toppings said his department issued warrants Saturday for the arrest of Hipolito Zamora Hernandez. Hernandez, 29, of 313 E. Dundee St., is charged with driving drunk, driving left of center and identity theft.

Toppings said the charges against Hernandez stemmed from a traffic stop on U.S. 301 near Main Street in August 2007. He said Hernandez’s blood alcohol content at the time of his arrest was a .22, or almost three times the legal limit of .08.

Court records show the charges were dismissed three months later. Toppings said the dismissal was the result of Hernandez having given police a false name. During a court hearing last November, a lawyer representing Hernandez asked for the dismissal of all charges when the man whose name Hernandez had used showed up in court in place of Hernandez.

Hernandez remains in the Johnston County Jail on those charges and others relating to an April 13 drunken driving accident on Heath Road. The N.C. Highway Patrol has charged Hernandez with second-degree murder, DWI, reckless driving and other charges for striking Marcus Lassiter of Selma with his vehicle. Lassiter died a day later at Duke University Medical Center in Durham.