I'm glad that's cleared up. I thought he was drunk and fled the scene to avoid serious charges.

This whole thing sounds like we will never know the truth.

Why was he not issued a summons for leaving the scene?

You are bleeding and call a friend on the force instead of 911??? Really Freeholder.....how much did you drink that night because it did impair your judgement and driving. You left the scene of an accident. Roseland is the place to commit crimes.

Let me be sure I got all the facts correct. He wouldn't tell what eating establishment he was at. Maybe they would question a bartender or something. He couldn't call for help? He had his cell phone! He was answering a text!! Someone needs to investigate how much he had to drink at the eating establishment.

I got a speeding ticket in Roseland for doing 39 in a 25 and it cost me a lot more than $100.

Years ago a good friend of mine was a judge, and he said to do exactly what Leonard Luciano did, if you are in a single car accident, run away and call it in later. The most you can get is "leaving the scene", call and say you were disoriented and somehow ended up at home... I guess it actually works !

Hey Lenny, SHUT UP.

This cover-up is very disheartening and embarrassing to he, his family and our community. You can't bend the rules for anyone -- law enforcement, political leader, parent, teacher or friend. The law is the law; established to protect both you and the governing body. I, for one, am disgusted reading how this incident played out.

Let me get my facts straight. This guy is an Essex County Freeholder. He slams into a tree in Roseland at 2 in the morning. Doesn't call police. Leaves the scene of an accident. Walks home and calls a friend who is an off duty cop in West Caldwell. Won't say where he was coming from. And he gets a ticket for using a cell phone. I guess the law doesn't apply to him.

He must be collecting both a salary and pension like DiVincenzo.

Unable to call for help yet able to walk a half mile? Sounds about right.

If he had nothing to hide, he would of told police where he was that night. Imagine if a regular citizen refused to disclose that information to police? They would likely be taken to the station for further questioning and presumed to be under the influence.

This article keeps saying freeholder. I think the word they're looking for is freeloader.

Do you expect anything different around here? Park overnight get a summons drunk drive, know a town cop get nothing. Priceless

Another lib draining the system, making law after law after law for everyone else as they protect each other from these same laws. God the hypocrisy of it all makes me sick. If the cops didn't come to the rescue and bury the situation their own people would have made sure they never wore a badge again, so blaming the cops for being silently blackmailed doesn't solve the problem of the way a liberal mind works.

I hope there is someone out there that can investigate this story. Everyone involved in this should be investigated. He should not be getting away with this. Roseland police come forward and find the real truth. You mean NO one took his blood when he went t othe hospital. Apparently had enough coming out of him. That would tell the truth.

I think we should give the guy a break - he is in his 30's, living at home, driving a red Jeep Liberty, and works at a library. He really needs a drink or 10!

He definitely got away with one here, but it's a pretty smart move leaving the scene and avoiding the DUI.

Just because he left the scene does not mean thats how "he beat a DUI" As everyone has been saying in all their post's there is a cover up here..

He left the scene and should be ticketed for that, anything less is special treatment. As a public official he should be the first one to open himself to public scrutiny. Where was he until 2 am? Was anyone else in the car? Can a record of his cell phone use help to clear this up? Too fishy.

He left the scene. Period. Got away with more than DWI.

who did he get a text from at 2am? phone got knocked out of his hand so why look for it? air bag burn? that looks like a no seat belt injury to me, but I have to say its an improvement. I'm thinking sex, drugs, and rock and roll for the libby on this one. Thats why they are libs, they take the liberty of not abiding by the laws they create. I think we need a few more to chime in to keep the heat on this guy, I need to see him crack, he already ran home to mommy to protect him so you know he is weak, come on put the old spotlight on him, we already have the Menendez cover up, lets see how much is really being covered up on this one.

oh and don't look for Roseland for help they already had another liberal moocher living there who ran home to Mommy in Toms River when he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar by Christie, another hack making 190,000 a year working for the passaic valley water commission at a practically no show job, he is or was a lawyer and a politician, oh what the hell might as well put the name out there and add it to the list of crooked libs. Kevin Keogh, So if you think the liberals in Roseland are going to investigate you got another think coming, and even if the chief of police wanted to be impartial he couldn't open his mouth because Roseland backed him for years when he had his own issues. This has to come from the outside. Gov. Christie where are you? you backed off on running the scum out of the State, I fear you have been bought off.

Were supposed to feel sorry for him cause the headline reads " I need my family to help me" he needs help all right but not because of this.

A freeholder is an elected member of the county government in the state of New Jersey. Each county elects one freeholder. The freeholder are part of the legislative body of government, they meet to make laws in certain areas of the state law at least as far as the state laws affect the counties. Oh the Irony..