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21-Year-Old Sussex County Man Charged In DWI Hit-And-Run Crash: Police
A Sussex County man was intoxicated when he drove away from the scene of a crash, authorities said.
Benjamin Johnson, 21, hit another vehicle while driving a Toyota Camry near North Shore and Sparta Avenue in Sparta around 3:30 a.m. on Friday, April 15, police said in a Monday release.
Johnson, of Newton, was subsequently found in the parking lot of QuickChek with his vehicle, which sustained heavy front-end damage, authorities said.
Johnson was found to be intoxicated and failed a series of field sobriety tests, police said.
He was arrested and charged with DWI, careless driving, yieldin…
Video: Bergen Nanny, Baby Stroller Struck By Hit-Run Van, Driver Caught
A Haworth nanny and an infant she was pushing in a stroller were struck Wednesday by a van driven by a FedEx worker from Rockland who fled the scene, authorities said.
A police sergeant in neighboring Demarest stopped David Gutfeld, 56, of Airmont a short time later, Haworth Police Chief Michael Gracey said.
The child was OK, but the 55-year-old nanny had to be hospitalized, Gracey said, adding that the entire incident was captured on home security video.
“Lucky thing the child was strapped in securely,” he said.
Video shows the white Enterprise rental van plowing into the nanny and 1½-y…
South Jersey Driver Indicted For Manslaughter In Hit-Run Crash, Killing Galloway Woman, 48
An Atlantic County Grand Jury has returned an indictment of aggravated manslaughter against an Absecon man who was involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 48 year-old Galloway Township woman last spring, authorities said.
Keneet Camacho, 39, was indicted on the following charges: first-degree aggravated manslaughter, second-degree leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, third-degree assault by auto and third-degree causing death while unlicensed/suspended, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner
At 7:58 a.m. on April 20, 2020, the Galloway Townshi…
DWI Budd Lake Man, 42, Charged In Route 46 Hit-And-Run Crash
A Budd Lake man was under the influence when he left the scene of a crash on Route 46, authorities said.
Daniel F. Stroup, 42, crashed his silver Chevy pickup truck on Route 46 in Mount Olive Township just before 12:15 p.m. on Sept. 10 -- then drove away, Mount Olive police said.
A police sergeant saw the truck on Wolfe Road and followed it to a home on Highfield Court, police said.
During questioning, Stroup displayed signs of intoxication and subsequently failed field sobriety tests, authorities said.
Stroup was arrested and charged with DWI, reckless driving, leaving the scene of …
Prosecutor: Ocean County Driver Charged In NY Pedestrian's Death, Fled Parkway Crash Scene
A 37-year-old man from Toms River has been charged in the death of a Westchester County, NY, man who was struck on the shoulder of the Garden State Parkway, authorities said.
Roberto Sandoval-Guerrero was charged with vehicular homicide, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said on Wednesday.
Daniel Cintron, 50, of Ossining, NY, had been involved in a minor accident late Saturday with a car driven by Frank Puglisi, 21, of Staten Island, NY. before a third vehicle struck both of them along the side of the parkway, Billhimer said.
Cintron and Puglisi had gotten out of their veh…
