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Ex-Cop Pleads Guilty In Double-Fatal Off Duty DWI Wreck In New Jersey, Prosecutor Says
A 30-year-old former police officer has pleaded guilty to charges filed in connection with a double-fatal wreck he caused while off duty last summer, authorities announced.
Amitoj Oberoi, 29, of Somerset, was employed as an Edison police officer at the time of the accident on Route 27 in Franklin Township that killed Carlos Perez-Gayan, a 24-year-old Somerset resident, and Victor Cabrera-Francisco, a 20-year-old North Brunswick resident, as previously reported by Daily Voice.
Oberoi pleaded guilty to two counts of vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated, authorities said. His …
Family Of Man Killed In Somerset County Crash Involving Off-Duty DWI Cop Sees Wave Of Support
Central Jersey is coming together to support the family of one of the victims of this week's double-fatal crash investigators say was caused by a DWI off-duty Edison police officer.
Carlos Alexis Perez Gaytan, 24, was thrown from the back right passenger’s seat and killed in the Somerset County crash on Somerset Street on Sunday morning, August 27, Daily Voice reported.
The driver, Amitoj Oberoi, an off-duty police officer in Edison, was charged with two counts of first-degree vehicular homicide, DWI, and other offenses.
Born in New Brunswick, Carlos spent time in Jamesburg and New Brunswi…
DWI Off-Duty Officer Charged In Double-Fatal Somerset County Crash, Victims IDd: Prosecutor
An off-duty Edison police officer was charged with vehicular homicide in connection with one of the two double-fatal crashes that occurred in Somerset County over the weekend, authorities announced.
Amitoj Oberoi, 29, of Somerset, was charged with two counts of first-degree vehicular homicide, as well as DWI, and several motor vehicle violations, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald said Wednesday, Aug. 30.
Oberoi is employed as an Edison police officer and was off-duty at the time of the crash, the prosecutor said.
Oberoi was driving a 2007 Audi Q7 heading southbound on Somerset St…
