TOMS RIVER — A South Amboy resident, Mark Carey, Jr., 21, was sentenced to six years in state prison for knowingly leaving the scene of a fatal hit-and-run crash that occurred on Jan. 13, 2024, in the area of Route 35 South and Bay Avenue in Brick, according to a release by Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer.
Carey was sentenced in state Superior Court and previously pleaded guilty to the charge before Judge Kimarie Rahill.
On Jan. 13, 2024, at approximately 9:15 a.m., officers from the Brick Township Police Department responded to the area of Route 35 and Bay Avenue for a hit-and-run collision involving a pedestrian.
According to the release, responding officers discovered that a vehicle had struck a female pedestrian, later identified as Julia Sutton, 56, of Weehawken, in the shoulder of the roadway, and then the driver fled the scene. Sutton was taken to Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center in Brick Township, where she was pronounced dead.
An investigation conducted by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit- Vehicular Homicide Squad, Brick Township Police Department, and Ocean County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit, determined that the vehicle which struck and killed the victim was a 1999 Ford Explorer registered to Carey, the prosecutor said.
According to the release, further investigation identified Carey as the individual who operated the subject Ford Explorer at the time of the crash which resulted in Sutton’s death.
Carey was taken into custody at his home in South Amboy without incident and then processed at Brick Township Police Headquarters. Carey was transported to the Ocean County Jail and subsequently released as a consequence of New Jersey Bail Reform.
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