🚔 Ex-Hillside police officer is sentenced to 17 years in prison for a DUI crash that killed a couple.
⚖️ Prosecutors said the officer’s pickup flew off the Garden State Parkway before smashing into another car below.
💔 The victims were an accomplished Maryland couple with careers in engineering, medicine and the U.S. Army.
A police officer who killed a married couple in a DWI crash has been sent to prison.
On Friday, John P. McClave III was sentenced to 17 years — eight-and-a-half for each victim — by Superior Court Judge David Fritch sitting in Toms River. The 38-year-old McClave must serve more than 14 years before becoming eligible for parole.
Former NJ police officer sentenced in deadly Monmouth County DUI crash
An Ocean County jury found McClave guilty in March of two counts of vehicular homicide.
On Oct. 9, 2021, around 7:30 p.m., Tinton Falls Police and the Wayside Fire Co. were called to a crash on Asbury Avenue, just below the Garden State Parkway overpass…