{"id":27998,"date":"2020-01-12T12:19:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27998"},"modified":"2020-01-12T12:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T17:19:57","slug":"nj-postal-employee-gets-364-day-term-in-fatal-hit-and-run-can-keep-working-return-to-jail-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/01\/12\/nj-postal-employee-gets-364-day-term-in-fatal-hit-and-run-can-keep-working-return-to-jail-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Postal Employee Gets 364-Day Term in Fatal Hit-And-Run &#8211; Can Keep Working, Return To Jail At Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NORTHJERSEY- Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/uw-media.northjersey.com\/embed\/video\/1492731002?placement=snow-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Midland Park postal worker who twice fled a deadly hit-and-run accident in Ridgewood will serve 364 days in county jail, a Superior Court judge ruled on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Ramos stood quietly in a Bergen County courtroom Friday after pleading guilty in the 2018 roadway death of Edward Rao, a Ridgewood real estate agent.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Ramos, 48, told police he drove \u201cover something&#8221; on West Ridgewood Avenue one night in September that year, and returned to find the 54-year-old Rao lying in the street. Ramos spoke with police at the scene, but left again without mentioning his role in the collision. He was arrested a week later. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/2020\/01\/11\/ridgewood-nj-man-who-fled-deadly-hit-and-run-twice-gets-jail-time\/4432637002\/\">NorthJersey.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See PEN&#8217;s original coverage here: <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/09\/nj-postal-worker-arrested-in-deadly-hit-and-run\/\">NJ Postal Worker Arrested In Deadly Hit-And-Run<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28000\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Raphael-Ramos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Raphael-Ramos.jpg 436w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Raphael-Ramos-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Raphael-Ramos-122x74.jpg 122w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Raphael-Ramos-120x74.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Midland Park postal worker who twice fled a deadly hit-and-run accident in Ridgewood will serve 364 days in county jail, a Superior Court judge ruled on Friday. Rafael Ramos stood quietly in a Bergen County courtroom Friday after pleading guilty in the 2018 roadway death of Edward Rao, a Ridgewood real estate agent. Authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28001,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998\/revisions\/28001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}