New Jersey: cop given two years probation for DUI crash into corrections officer; cop loses $91,000 a year job as part of plea

From Asbury Park Press
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— Last year, Robert Felix’s two children celebrated their birthdays at his hospital bedside, he said.
Felix, who has been a Monmouth County corrections officer for 15 years, said he missed out on his children’s school functions and sporting events, as he recuperated from the injuries he suffered in a car crash last year.
“It was heartbreaking to know I couldn’t be part of their everyday activities,” Felix, 41, of Keansburg, said in court Friday at the sentencing of Andrew J. Adell.
Adell, 31, of Hazlet, who pleaded guilty in December to assault by auto and driving while intoxicated, was sentenced to two years’ probation ….MORE