Freehold Lawyer Indicted On Charge He Lied About Middlesex Nightclub Crash: Prosecutor

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ -- A Freehold lawyer has been indicted on charges he falsely accused a Middlesex County detective of causing a crash when the detective was never at the scene, the Middlesex County prosecutor's office announced Friday.

Mark Kentos, 46, of Freehold, who practices law in Howell, was indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury on one count of falsely incriminating another individual, by claiming the detective was driving Kentos’s vehicle in the crash, when, in fact, the detective was never at the scene and was not involved, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said.

Assistant Prosecutor Christine D’Elia offered the results of an investigation by Lt. Timothy Brennan of the Sayreville Police Department and Detective Nicholas Chiorello of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.

During the investigation it was determined that Kentos was driving a 2006 Dodge Ram pickup truck in the parking lot of a nightclub in Sayreville on Dec. 4, 2015 when he crashed into the rear passenger side of a 2013 Subaru at 11:20 p.m., the prosecutor's office said.

Kentos told police his pickup had been driven by the detective from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and claimed the detective fled, the prosecutor's office said. It subsequently was shown that the detective was not the driver, was not at the scene of the collision, and had not been at the nightclub, officials said.

Kentos was charged by police on Dec. 28, 2015.

The investigation is active and is continuing, Carey's office said. Anyone with information is asked to call Lt. Brennan of the Sayreville Police Department at 732-727-4444, or Detective Chiorello of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-745-3300.

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