Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said a lawyer from Monmouth County was indicted today on a charge of falsely accusing another individual during a police investigation of a motor vehicle crash.
Mark Kentos, 46, of Freehold was charged in New Brunswick with one count of falsely incriminating another individual by wrongly claiming that a detective from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office was driving Kentos’s vehicle in the crash, when, in fact, the detective was never at the scene and was not involved.
Kentos, who practices law in Howell Township, was indicted following a presentation to a grand jury by Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Christine D’Elia.
During the investigation it was determined that Kentos was driving a 2006 Dodge Ram pickup truck in the parking lot of a nightclub in Sayreville on December 4, 2015 when he crashed into the rear passenger side of a 2013 Subaru at 11:20 p.m.
Kentos told police his pickup had been driven by the detective from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and claimed the detective fled. It subsequently was shown that the detective was not the driver, was not at the scene of the collision, and had not been at the nightclub. Kentos was charged by police on December 28, 2015.
The investigation is active and is continuing.
Anyone with information is asked to call Lt. Brennan of the Sayreville Police Department at (732) 727-4444, or Detective Chiorello of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office e at (732) 745-3300.