Authorities looking for driver in Christmas Eve hit-and-run that killed 81-year-old woman
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Authorities are trying to locate the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident on Christmas Eve that killed an 81-year-old woman, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said on Monday.
Roberto Alcazar-Sanchez, 27, of Jackson, is believed to have been driving a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado on Thursday around 6 p.m. Thursday when he collided with a 2010 Mercedes Benz in Jackson Township as the other driver was making a left turn from I-195 onto Cedar Swap Road, the prosecutor’s office said.
Alcazar-Sanchez then fled the scene on foot and is being now being sought, authorities said.
UpdatedThu, Dec 31, 2020 at 9:14 am ET
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Retired Seaside Heights Police Capt. Gerald LaStella also was chief police instructor at the Ocean County Police Academy. (Shutterstock)
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NJ Funeral services have been set for Jan. 4 and 5 for retired Seaside Heights Police Capt. Gerald LaStella, who died Christmas morning.
The Seaside Heights Police Department said the viewing will be 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Jan. 4 at Ryan Home for Funerals on St. Catherine Boulevard, Toms River, with the funeral at 10 a.m. Jan. 5 at St. Catherine s Roman Catholic Church, Seaside Park.
LaStella served on the Seaside Heights force for 26 years, following in his father s footsteps, and later was the chief police instructor at the Ocean County Police Academy. He started his career as a dispatcher in 1968 and was hired as a police officer in 1970. He graduated from the Municipal Police Academy in Sea Girt in June 1970, according to an Asbury Park Press report at the time. He was promoted t
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Man who admitted stealing $100K from 73-year-old blind woman headed to prison
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
A man who admitted befriending a 73-year-old blind Toms River woman and stealing over $100,000 from her was sentenced Friday to seven years in state prison, authorities said.
Tyler Dietlmeier, 28, of Toms River, pleaded guilty on Oct. 23 to theft by deception and criminal coercion and received seven and four-year state prison sentences, respectively, for each crime, according to a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. The sentences will run concurrently.
On Jan. 27, the Toms River Police were called to a home for a report of fraudulent activity that had occurred there and an investigation revealed that Dietlmeier had become friendly with the woman, under false pretenses, knowing that she was legally blind and lived alone, the office said.