Warrant Issued For Colts Neck Teen Accused of Manslaughter

Update: On Saturday, October 8, at 10:47 p.m., Marlboro Township Patrolman Adam Levine, while on patrol in the area of Ramsgate Drive, investigated a suspicious vehicle parked in a secluded area of the development. Erica Weinman was an occupant of that vehicle. Police ran her name, and that of the other occupant. She was found to be wanted on the outstanding warrant and arrested at the scene without incident, Capt. Fred Reck of the Marlboro PD said. The other occupant of the vehicle was released at the scene. Weinman was transported to the Monmouth County Jail, where a judge imposed a $250,000 bail, no 10% option. All extradition proceedings back to Connecticut were handled by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.

COLTS NECK, NJ - A warrant has now been issued for a young Colts Neck woman accused of fleeing Connecticut after she was charged with manslaughter following a fatal car accident there last year.

Erica Weinman, then 18, of Colts Neck was involved in a fatal car accident on Interstate 84 east in Middlebury, Connecticut, at 10 p.m. on Oct. 25 of last year, according to the Connecticut State Police public information office. Weinman was driving east in the far left lane of I-84 when she lost control of her 2014 Ford Escape and crossed the center median, Connecticut State Troopers said in the accident report. That's when she slammed into a 2007 Porsche Cayman headed westbound, causing her car to flip and land on its roof, police said.

The driver of the Porsche, Kevin J. Klein, 59, of Brookfield, Connecticut, was killed in the crash. A woman next to him, Susan Anthony-Klein, 55, was taken to a local hospital for injuries. Weinman and her passenger, Brandon A. Findel, 18, also of Colts Neck, were also taken to the hospital for injuries.

Weinman was charged with second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle in the fatal crash. Now 19, she failed to appear in Connecticut court on the charges, and a warrant was issued for her arrest Saturday, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. She is considered a fugitive from justice and is being sought by authorities to be extradited back to Connecticut. The warrant listed her most recent address as West Aspen Way in Aberdeen.

The Ford Escape involved in the Connecticut crash was registered to a Freemont Lane address in Colts Neck. In June, a woman by the name of Erica Weinman was charged with serving alcohol to underage minors after a wild house party occurred at a Freemont Lane home in Colts Neck. As Patch has reported, a 24-year-old Sayreville man was stabbed at the June 25 house party, which had more than 500 people in attendance. Colts Neck Police arrived at the Freemont Lane house at about 10:50 p.m. after a noise complaint and found a 16-year-old girl who was drunk and unresponsive as well.