ROSELLE -- The state Attorney General's Office says it provided all the information requested in the 2011 drunk driving case against the police officer who was the driver in last month's double-fatal Staten Island crash.

Paul Loriquet, spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said the state received a handwritten letter from Roselle municipal prosecutor Steven Merman listing nine items sought by a defense attorney representing Linden Officer Pedro Abad Jr., who was charged with drunk-driving after crashing through the wall of a Roselle store on Jan. 22, 2011.

Loriquet said the Attorney General received the request on Aug. 9, 2011 and sent a response the next day with all the information State Police had in their possession relating to the defense attorney's request -- information related to the State Police laboratory analysis of a blood sample, the operating procedures for using the blood analysis machine and service reports for the machine.

On March 20, Abad, 27, was driving north in the southbound lanes of the West Shore Expressway in Staten Island shortly before 5 a.m. when he crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer, fatally injuring two passengers in his vehicle -- Linden Officer Frank Viggiano and Linden resident Joseph Rodriguez, both 28.

Abad and another Linden officer, Patrik Kudlac, 23, were both critically injured. They remain in critical but stable condition in separate Staten Island hospitals.

In a Dec. 15, 2011 Roselle court hearing, Abad's defense attorney Greggory Marootian had argued that he had not received all of the operating procedures for the State Police blood analysis machine, and only received six months of service reports on the machine despite the fact that he had requested 12 months of reports.

Merman countered that he had no control over what State Police sent. The next month, on Jan. 19, 2012, Marootian again appeared in court saying he still had not received the information from State Police and had not received audio tapes from Roselle authorities. At the end of the brief, three-minute hearing, Judge Carl Marshall dropped the charge.

Loriquet, responding to NJ Advance Media's report about the court hearings, said the state received a list of items being sought by Marootian. Loriquet said the state responding by sending 10 months of service reports on the blood analysis machine, and sent all the procedures for operating the machine.

After sending out the information, the Attorney General's Office never received any communication stating that Marootian was seeking additional information.

Marootian also stated in court that he never received copies of police audio transmissions from the night Abad as arrested.

Roselle police Capt. James Loprete would not comment on this case specifically, but said the department routinely complies with requests from defense attorneys for information.

"Whatever they request, it is given to them," Loprete said.

Merman, when reached Wednesday, declined to comment on the Abad case.

Marootian did not respond to messages left for him Tuesday, but he previously declined to comment on the case. Attempts to reach Marshall on Wednesday were unsuccessful.

Abad had twice been charged with drunk-driving; he was also charged in Rahway after hitting a parked car on Feb. 26, 2013 and his license was suspended.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office is investigating Abad's driving and employment records.

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