A 29-year-old Union City man admitted guilt to charges related to his role in the November 2020 hit-and-run death of a 56-year-old bicyclist, authorities announced.Miguel Perez pleaded guilty on Oct. 28 to one count of second-degree l…
Prosecutor: Driver, passenger charged in fatal Union City hit-and-run that killed cyclist
Nicholas Padin (left) and Miguel Perez. Photos courtesy of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
The driver, Miguel Perez, 28, of Union City, was arrested by members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Regional Collision Investigation Unit and the Union City Police Department today just after 12 noon.
Perez was charged with knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, causing death while driving with a suspended license, providing false reports to law enforcement, obstruction of the administration of law, and hindering apprehension.
2 men charged in fatal hit-and-run in Union City, prosecutor says
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
Posted Jan 07, 2021
Nicholas Padin, 63, of Hoboken, left, and Miguel Perez, 28, of Union City, were charged in connection to the Nov. 16 hit-and-run that claimed a 56-year-old s life, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said.Courtesy of the HCPO
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Authorities have arrested two men and charged them with a November hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of a 56-year-old cyclist in Union City.
Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Miguel Perez, 28, of Union City, and Nicholas Padin, 63, of Hoboken, turned themselves into detectives from her office’s Regional Collision Investigation Unit on Wednesday.