{"id":68714,"date":"2025-12-12T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68714\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:37:07","slug":"newark-man-extradited-from-dominican-republic-in-2022-elizabeth-fatal-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68714\/","title":{"rendered":"Newark Man Extradited from Dominican Republic in 2022 Elizabeth Fatal Hit-and-Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By: Richard L. Smith\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A Newark resident wanted for a deadly hit-and-run in Elizabeth more than three years ago has been captured overseas and returned to New Jersey to face charges, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel announced.<\/p>\n

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Authorities said 27-year-old Trevon Smith was arrested on December 1, 2025, in the Dominican Republic for his alleged role in an October 8, 2022 crash that killed 30-year-old pedestrian Adi Taipe-Castillo of Roselle.<\/p>\n

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Smith is accused of striking the victim near Newark Avenue and Durant Avenue around 2:47 a.m., then fleeing the scene. First responders found Taipe-Castillo critically injured, and he was pronounced dead shortly after.<\/p>\n

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According to investigators from the Union County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Homicide Task Force and the Elizabeth Police Department, Smith left the United States just after the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Their multi-year investigation ultimately led to locating him overseas.<\/p>\n

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Smith has been charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter, second-degree leaving the scene of a fatal accident, and third-degree hindering prosecution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After his extradition to the United States, he was transported to New Jersey and placed in the Essex County Jail pending court proceedings.<\/p>\n

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Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Union County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Homicide Task Force Sergeant Nicholas Falciccio at 908-721-8186<\/a> or Elizabeth Police Detective James Lugardo at 732-967-4064<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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