Collegeville Woman Sentenced For Lying After Fatal Crash

COLLEGEVILLE, PA -- A Collegeville woman has been sentenced for lying to law enforcement in the wake of a deadly crash.

Denise E. Dinnocenti, 46, of West Ninth Avenue, had pleaded guilty in 2013 to charges of obstructing administration of law, hindering apprehension or prosecution, insurance fraud and other charges, according to court records.

She allegedly told police and insurance authorities that she was behind the wheel of the vehicle that struck and killed 16-year-old Timothy Anthony Paciello Jr. on East High Street in Lower Pottsgrove just before 9 p.m. on Nov. 12, 2013, according to the Times Herald.

She was sentenced to three years of court supervision on Friday, court records show.

Days after the crash, Dinnocenti allegedly admitted that her boyfriend at the time, Robert Norman Sitler, Sr., was driving the 2009 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck.

Authorities say that Dinnocenti, who lived in Perkiomen Township with Sitler at the time of the crash, allegedly lied to police because Sitler was convicted of vehicular homicide/manslaughter in Alabama in 2004, and he had had a “drink or two” prior to getting behind the wheel of the truck.

According to police, Dinnocenti’s two minor children were in the rear of the pickup truck at the time of the crash, and she told them to lie about who was driving the vehicle.

As a result, she was also charged with corruption of minors.