911 Calls: Ex-N.J. Cop Ran Over Man In Fight Over Officer's Extra-Marital Affair

A former New Jersey police officer who allegedly ran over somebody last month following an early morning altercation - possibly caused by an extra-marital affair - won’t be facing charges or going to jail.

Calls to 911 dispatchers, however, provide some insight into what sparked the altercation between the two men that refers to an extra-marital affair and other family problems.

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office does not expect any charges to be filed against 37-year-old Jason Costantini, a former Wall police sergeant who allegedly ran over 51-year-old Cliff Vreeland with his SUV on Aug. 28, according to the Coast Star.

Charlie Webster, an MCPO spokesman, said that charges could still be filed against Vreeland, who is said to have initiated the altercation with Costantini, according to the report.

Vreeland’s wife Michelle told The Coast Star that her husband has been heavily sedated since the incident and remains in critical condition with severe internal injuries; he has undergone four surgeries and has had his spleen removed.

Vreeland was arguing with Costantini because the former police officer, who is married, was having an affair with Vreeland’s daughter, according to nj.com.

Vreeland was so angry that he punched out the driver’s side window of Costantini’s SUV with his bare fist and started hitting him. Costantini’s foot came off the brake, so the SUV rolled forward, knocking Vreeland to the ground and ran him over, according to the report.

According to the 911 audio (see below):

The first call came in at 6:09 a.m. to 911 dispatchers, with a woman telling a dispatcher: “I need help. I just got attacked by my dad and my sister ... send an ambulance for Cliff Vreeland.”

A man then got on the phone and told the dispatcher the incident happened on Hurley Pond Road in Wall Township.

“I was on the phone with my girlfriend trying to pick her up.. She was walking down the road and starts screaming bloody murder,” the man says. “I get there, her older sister and her father was hitting her.”

“Were there any weapons?” the dispatcher asks.

“No... I knocked the father down... [the father then] blasts through my window and [expletive] starts choking me. So I had to drive off.”

“Cliff Vreeland is injured,” the man added.

“My girlfriend is bleeding too. Her dad and sister were just punching on her face when I got there. He wasn’t run over. He was hanging in my car and choking me. I had to drive off and I think he fell down pretty hard.”

Another man told a dispatcher: ”There is somebody in the middle of the road. Get somebody there in a hurry.”

In another call, a man says he’s with the daughter of the subject who was struck. “It’s a hit-and-run and she has a suspect.”

The woman who identified herself as Sam Vreeland told the dispatcher: “My father just got ran over.” He was lying down and bleeding “all over his head,” she said.

“Who did this?” the dispatcher asks.

“His name is Jason Costa - or something like that ... he works on the Wall Township Police force with you,” Vreeland said.

“It’s okay, Daddy. They’re coming, They’re coming,” Vreeland then told her father.

Vreeland then provides some insight into what led to the altercation.

“My sister is very distressed right now, this 37-year-old man ... [Mr. Costantini] has taken control of her. She’s 21 years old and she is very impressionable ... she thinks she’s in love ... He will not leave his wife.”