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Officers arrested Meredith Lubell, 33, after finding her at her DeWolf Road home, Police Chief Thomas Shine said.
Moments earlier, the chief said, she struck the 41-year-old Paterson victim with her Jeep in the parking lot of the Bi-State Plaza on Old Tappan Road – exactly a mile from her house.
A witness gave police a license plate number that led directly to Lubell following the 12:35 p.m. 911 call, he said.
Police charged her with DWI, assault by auto, endangering an injured victim, leaving the scene of a crash involving injuries, reckless driving, DWI in a school zone and both leaving the scene of a crash with injuries without rendering assistance and failing to report it.
She was released pending further court action because of a mumps quarantine at the Bergen County Jail, the chief said.
The victim, Denis Bursac, was listed in serious condition at Hackensack University Medical Center, Shine said.
The Jeep was impounded.
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