SOUTH BOUND BROOK -- When a South Bound Brook police officer asked his police chief whether he'd been involved in a hit-and-run last month, the chief drunkenly denied any involvement, according to the officer's report.

Officer Richard Meinsen, in a report released to NJ Advance Media Tuesday following a public records request, describes recognizing the vehicle involved in an alleged hit-and-run as similar to Chief William King's, finding the vehicle with damage in the chief's driveway, and having a conversation in which the chief appeared "too intoxicated to attempt to get any further in-depth statement."

It wasn't immediately clear whether King will face a charge of driving while intoxicated -- the April 4 report doesn't list such a charge, and the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday the matter remains under review. As of Tuesday afternoon, King remained on active duty, according to Borough Administrator Donald E. Kazar.

The report also states the chief was not given an alcohol or drug test.

According to Meinsen's report, dated 2 a.m. on April 4, a Dodge Dakota had been legally parked on Main Street when, according to a witness statement, a black Ford or Chevrolet "type" pickup truck with tinted windows pulled out of the driveway of the borough municipal building.

The witness said the truck turned right onto Main Street heading south, then struck the parked vehicle's driver-side rear corner, causing the truck to "actually shake," Meinsen wrote.

The witness didn't get a license plate for the vehicle that made the turn or a description of the driver, Meinsen wrote, though he planned to see if a nearby business had any security video of the incident.

But at 2:25 a.m., Meinsen wrote, he went to King's residence in Somerset. The chief's blue GMC Sierra pickup truck had been in the borough lot around the time of the incident, according to his report.

There, Meinsen found the chief's vehicle backed into his driveway, with damage on the passenger side, according to the report. He took pictures, then called King via his cell phone to ask him to come out, Meinsen wrote.

But the chief said the damage was already there, without elaborating as to how it got there, Meinsen wrote. He noted in his report that while he remembers seeing the chief's vehicle in the borough lot, he doesn't remember it being damaged.

"His breath smelled of alcoholic beverages and he appeared to have been drinking," Meinsen wrote. "He stated to me without my asking that he had a few drinks while at home."

Meinsen wrote that he told King he was investigating a hit-and-run, and that a witness had described a vehicle similar to King's. Meinsen also wrote that he told King he'd remembered seeing the King's vehicle in the borough lot "and I was just asking if he could have possibly struck the vehicle and just not realize it."

"He stated that he didn't strike any vehicle and that if he did he would have recalled doing so," Meinsen wrote. "Chief King appeared to be too intoxicated as to attempt to get any further in-depth statement form him."

But Meinsen said the damage between the two vehicles was consistent with the collision, and he determined the chief's vehicle had been the one to strike the parked one.

King was charged with leaving the scene of an accident. The report states that on May 1, he was additionally charged with failure to report an accident, careless driving and improper turning.

A call to South Bound Brook police Tuesday seeking comment has not yet been returned.