The co-owner of a popular Newport restaurant has been charged in a hit-and-run crash that left a bicyclist seriously injured.
Mark Thomas Tinucci Sr., 70, of Cottage Grove, has been charged with one count of criminal vehicular operation causing great bodily harm in Washington County. Tinucci is a co-owner of Tinucci’s in Newport, having purchased it in 1991 with his two brothers, according to the restaurant’s website.
According to the criminal complaint, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a hit-and-run involving a bicycle on Maxwell Avenue at the Interstate 494 underpass in Newport on Aug. 16.
At the scene, deputies found a man lying in the road near a bicycle. He was hospitalized with serious injuries, having suffered a brain bleed and fractures to his ribs, clavicle and scapula…