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Bernie Schwartz
According to witnesses, Schwartz struck Lopez with his silver BMW
5-series at about 9:30 p.m. July 31 as he crossed Redland Road with
two friends. The witnesses said the BMW stopped several hundred feet
from the scene and the driver got out of the car, but got back in and
drove away, police reported.
Lopez died the next day at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma
Center in Baltimore.
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A Call From A Body Shop
Investigators got the decisive tip from a body shop that had
replaced a windshield, said Assistant State’s Attorney Paul Zmuda.
When they found the BMW, it had ‘‘scuff marks on the hood consistent
with a pedestrian collision,” Zmuda said. Detectives were finally
granted an interview with Schwartz at his lawyer’s office in
Greenbelt, where he confessed to hitting Lopez and fleeing the scene.
Schwartz told police in the interview that it was dark as he drove and
that he ‘‘suddenly” heard a loud noise and his windshield was smashed
out.
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Numerous Previous Charges
An earlie September 2005 traffic violation shows that a Brian L.
Schwartz of Columbia, Md., driving a 5-series BMW and with the same
birth month and year as the one listed in the pre-indictment filing,
was cited for failing to obey a traffic control device on Redland Road
at Crabbs Branch Way.
Seth Abe Zucker, of the State’s Attorney’s Office, would not
comment on the pending case.
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Schwartz's Lawyer
Brenie Felder wants poor Mr Schwartz to get one year of house
arrest.
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State Attorney
A DUI homicide is 20 yrs, a hit and run is 5 yrs, but the State
Attorney, a fellow Zionist, cut a plea deal.
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Schwartz Attended 'Happy hour"
Twenty minutes before the collision that killed a 17-year-old
Magruder High School student last July, the driver who pleaded guilty
to leaving the scene attended a happy hour at which he and three
others consumed 26 alcoholic drinks in less than four hours, according
to a police report.
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