A 47-year-old New York man is now charged alongside the driver after detectives searched the Acura and U-Haul linked to the deadly Route 17 crash
PARAMUS, NJ – A fatal crash outside the Garden State Plaza has turned into a drug case. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced that a second man, 47-year-old Michael C. Marciano of Fairport, NY, surrendered Friday, October 23, 2026, and was charged in the continuing investigation. Prosecutors also filed new drug charges against 31-year-old Estuardo G. Rodriguez, the driver accused in the October 19 hit-and-run that killed a woman on Route 17 South.
According to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, detectives learned during the follow-up investigation that Rodriguez allegedly had one pill each of suspected Ecstasy and Percocet on him at the time of the crash.
Investigators then executed a court-authorized search of the 2024 Acura Rodriguez was driving and the U-Haul trailer it was towing. Inside, they say, were several hundred THC cartridges…