Toms River Man Charged Fatal Parkway Hit-And-Run

TOMS RIVER, NJ — A Toms River man who had a suspended driver's license has been charged with vehicular homicide after authorities say he left the scene of a Garden State Parkway crash that killed a New York man late Saturday.

Roberto Sandoval-Guerrero, 37, of Toms River, is behing held at the Ocean County Jail pending a detention hearing, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said.

Daniel Cintron, 50, of Ossining, New York, was hit and killed near milepost 86 southbound about 11:15 p.m, New Jersey State Police said.

Cintron and Frank Puglisi, 21, of Staten Island, were standing on the shoulder of the Parkway exchanging information following a minor motor vehicle accident when the two men were hit by a 2002 Mercury Mountaineer driven by Sandoval-Guerrero, Billhimer said.

Puglisi was hit in the left arm, but Cintron was thrown into the travel lanes where he was run over by passing traffic, Billhimer said. Cintron was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sandoval-Guerrero fled, police said, driving farther south before abandoning the vehicle on the shoulder and running off. He was eventually found in the area of Route 9 and Church Road and arrested, Billhimer said.

In addition to vehicular homicide, Sandoval-Guerrero is charged with knowingly leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle accident; causing death or injury while driving with a suspended driver’s license; assault by auto, and resisting arrest, he said.

The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Vehicular Homicide Unit, New Jersey State Police, Toms River Township Police Department, Ocean County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit and Ocean County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit investigated.

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