So what this means is its ok to work for the town, kill someone, and get away with it with a DWI. Or friends in the jury.

part time employee.... or just another member of the friends & relative club ?

this is totally NOT acceptable-is this how we get on the list of safest towns in the USA-by not indicting someone's. Totally disgusting. How covenant that they did not want to jeopardize his DWI arrest-The family should go after him with a civil suit.

anyone who believes a GRAND JURY can be persuaded by a "Friends & Relative Club" shouldn't be posting comments.

Yes Brickresident, this is exactly how its done in Ocean County. Are you ready to move yet?

The Grand Jury can only decide with what they are PRESENTED....find out what they were given as evidence, and maybe more importantly what they were NOT given...unbelievable. and he is still driving.

STUPID... stupid.... stupid...

He was DWI... and didn't get hit with vehicular manslaughter charge???
The Ocean County Prosecutors office is completely BS on this one!!!
If it were anyone else.... they would be facing a manslaughter charge.

This is an OUTRAGE!!! I just can't believe this!! When I read this it actually made me so sick to my stomach that I had to throw up!!! Not only is it unbelievable that he is still driving, he has no remorse either as he walks around with a BIG SMILE on his face!!!! I don't believe that a Grand Jury can only decide a case on the information presented or not presented......There is corruption all over the place from municpal governments all the way to the US JUDICIAL system not just Ocean County and if anyone expects us to believe that Politics did NOT have a ROLE in this case and its outcome was born yesterday!!!! A young boy when will never get a chance to become a MAN, fall in Love, have a family, career was KILLED and left behind is a Heartbroken Greiving family that was given NO JUSTICE!!! I wonder what would have been done if it was someone from our wonderful Mayors family who was runned down and killed by a town employee?????

Any time someone is driving while intoxicated and they end up killing someone, they SHOULD be charged with vehicular homicide. The precise moment when you start that engine when you've been drinking, you have made the choice to potentially kill someone. It is murder, any way you look at it....its not an accident to kill someone when you are driving drunk. Sympathy to the family of the victim.

Again it's who you know. This is absolutely obscene. I hope Doyle and those that helped him get out of this, enjoy their time in hell.

And remember this...KARMA IS A REAL BITCH AND SHE WILL GET YOU WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT.

I feel so bad for the Briffa family, no closure, and mean while Doyle is free to continue to drive drunk and take the life of someone else.

The Prosecutor had no passion in making this case...Doyle's connections are way above the town....the Mayor and his crew had nothing to do with it...it's higher. Clamdigger, I don't think anyone is trying to help HIM per say, but help the family member that runs with the same people in power. He's somebody's brother. Hopefully, because of his 3rd DUI and the fact he killed this young man can get him prison time. I know of someone who had 4 DUI's and killed no one that just went to jail to serve a year last month.

Tragic stuff here, many peoples lives changed forever. This said, I have to believe that the evidence just didn't support a homicide charge. To believe there is some huge conspiracy involving police, the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office and a bunch of citizens on the grand jury is a bit far fetched for me to believe. My heart goes out to the Briffa family, and regardless of whether or not he spends time in jail, Pat Doyle will have to live with this for the rest of his life.

This is just not good enough, prosecutors. A child is dead and your only suspect is free because what you presented wasn't enough to indict, let alone convict? My condolences to the Briffa family. As a father of 3, I cannot imagine the pain of losing one. Such utter disregard of life is a disgrace and should not be so casually dismissed.

Here's to all you incompetent individuals who know practically nothing about the law: regardless of what you're doing, what your speed is, or what time of day it is, IF YOU STRIKE A CIVILIAN YOU WILL GET ARRESTED. Now in this case, Doyle was never initially arrested after the incident. So that's where the whole issue of cover-up even begins. Of course, it gets worse. How does a man with previous DUI/DWI charges not get indicted with vehicular manslaughter, especially when results revealed traces of THC (the chemical released when marijuana is burned) in his blood IN ADDITION to high levels of alcohol in the blood. Yeah tell me it isn't a case full of cover up and social atrocities. In regards to Anthony's placement "in the road"...I had no idea that the shoulder was considered in the middle of the road. If you're getting your facts from the placement of his body when paramedics arrived, yes it was in the middle of the road; that's what happens when a vehicle driven above the speed limit strikes you. You tend to get "flung" onto the road. Don't you dare disrespect Anthony, his family, his friends, and any breathing human being by your idiotic claims that have no bearing. Yield to the pedestrian. That's the first thing we learn in driving school. Apparently, Doyle doesn't abide by this law--or any other for that matter

How sad....This smells real fishy to me.

If I was the family I'd be in contact with all news affiliates and the state attorney general. Call him through the governors office at 609-292-6000.

Good luck and I'm so very sorry for your loss.

Where do we go to apply for our "get out of jail free" cards?.....@. the PBA or the Ocean County Republican Club?....Wow....prayers for the Briffa family.

The justice system is truly broken. So sad! Continued prayers and condolences to the Briffa family!

I am very sorry for your loss..... If I were you, I know what would have to be done

http://www.dwihitparade.com/tag/pat-doyle/

A quote from this article by Mayor Acropolis: "Here's a man that dedicated his whole life to public service for our youth, and this happened"..."It's such a tragedy."

The truly sad thing about this quote by Mayor Acropolis is that the individual he was referring to (Pat Doyle) was being charged with DWI, reckless driving, making an unsafe lane change, and driving an unregistered vehicle. He was listed as a part time Public Relations official within Brick so clearly the Mayor knows him but why in the world would you pay homage to a man that just killed a 19 year with his life ahead of him instead of doing the right thing and admonishing Doyle for his poor decision making? I do not wish to turn this into a smear thread against Acropolis but it just seems every time he speaks he just puts his foot in his mouth. That all said, my prayers and best wishes to the Briffia family in what I can only imagine is a never ending sadness at the loss of Anthony.

I knew Anthony. He worked with me and was a great kid. For anyone to try to make him the guilty party in this, it's dispicable. Everyone who knew him just wants justice to be done so that he can rest in peace and his family can have some kind of closure. Something must be done about this.

Join the fight this could be your child. I work with this young mans father. I also workex with parents of kids in Newark School yard shootings. Its time to step up for what is right. Vehicular Manslaughter should be the charge

I don't understand this. If you are driving a vehicle drunk and that vehicle being driven results in someones death, there should be a trial. Period, end of story.

http://brick.patch.com/articles/suspected-drunk-driver-facing-additional-charges

This is a link to an article on 5/5/12, where the driver is charged with 3 counts of aggravated assault with a vehicle for an accident that injured 3 people. The article quotes the authorities as saying the additional charges are due to the fact that the driver was drunk at the time and the extent of the injuries. As far as I know no one died in this accident. My question is..... based on that criteria, why is this guy facing additional charges and Doyle is not? Seems that something is very fishy here. I think Doyle should be facing at least the same charges, if not vehicular homicide/manslaughter.

Pat Doyle is probably laughing his ass off...

Unbelievable !!!!!!! I do not understand how this could have happened. Pat Doyle needs to do jail time and never drive again !

The family should contact the states attorney Paul Fishman, supply him with all documentation, and ask him to try Doyle under the federal civil rights law. This can and is done quite often, when the state refuses to prosecute.

This just goes to show how corrupt brick is. What if it was a police officers child that was struck not a common citizen. Different results would be given. Or what if it was Doyle's little daughter? He should man up and take responsibility for his actions. Be a man.

So, what ever happened to that nice young lad who killed a boater with his speedboat, covered up the crime, and then claimed he hit a log? Why did that story disappear?

It seems you can do anything in New Jersey and get away with it if you know the right people.

Lets not forget he was driving drunk he illegally went into the other lane over the double yellow, and he was driving a unregistred car and who else knows what was not written up at the time. He was te adult in the bigger vehicle should have had control and been able to react an drive responsibly as an adult that night but he could not due so. He also has previous DUI so let's hope he loses his license with a little jail time and then the family does a civil suit. RIP Anthony justice will come one day we will speak for your blessed lost soul!

Is our prosecutor incompetent or what?!?!?

Ps: I think were all talkin loud on here but this needs to go to the streets and papers and news! Anthony can't speak anymore so we must speak for him! And I'd really love a picture of this guy I can't remember who he is as a hockey coach (hense why mayor loves him) etc. So please if you have one please post. Also why is he still allowed to drive around he was never arrest at all an he given bail or gone before a judge or released on his own recognesince. I don't know there's way to many holes in this whole situation and all I am see thru those wholes is a family and friends and church stuck with no answers and a guy drivig around still doing the same thing drinking and driving and smiling while doing it!

I wish I could say I'm speechless, but I figured this was going to be the outcome from the start. I want to take this in a different direction. Jordan Road has been a dangerous road for decades, Jordan Road has changed drastically over the decades from a long desolate road with barely any houses on it, to a very long densely populated residential street except by the swamp area. Yet little has be done to make this road safer for the residents. There has been at least ten deaths and many non-lethal accidents, yet the speed stays the same, the lighting stays the same and people continue to speed like it's their private Raceway Park. The residents of Jordan and it's side roads have pleaded with the county over the years to reduce the speed, add lighting and for more police presence and all of it has fallen on deaf ears. What's it going to take to get this road safer? A high ranking officials relative getting hurt or killed on it? Suing the Ocean County Road Department or personally suing the person within the department who makes those decisions? I thought after Anthony's death that someone with half a brain at the County Road Department would figure something has to be about Jordan and NOTHING! I ride by Anthony's memorial every day and every day I say a silent prayer as I do, God please don't let there be another one, yet I realize there will be, because the Ocean County road department decision makers just don't give a damn! A double whammy for the Briffa family!

Dan Nee, what connection do you have to news stations/broadcasting stations? I think keeping this locally will only result in further injustices to occur in the future. The press does powerful things as you know I'm sure.

It absolutely floors me that during a time that you can get charged with VM if it's believed you were texting while driving, But a man who was clearly drunk gets away with taking a young life.
I'm sorry but it doesn't matter if the boy was on the side of the road or not. Doyle was drunk end of story! He made the choice to drive IMPAIRED! Get that IMPAIRED! and a life was lost. He deserved to be charged.

Corruption is and will remain the DEATH of Ocean County. Clean house, start over! My prayers are with the family.

I am totally disgusted.................why on earth would the DWI charges be more important to prosecute than the fact that he killed an innocent young man?? The fact that Doyle's breathalizer results dictated a DWI charge is enough for me let alone un-registered vehicle and unsafe lane change. For anyone to place blame on Anthony is criminal!!! That's why the unsafe lane change charge!!!!!! Anthony was on the opposite side of the road, on the SHOULDER as per his best friends!!!! Witnesses to his murder. If it were any other 'normal' citizen such as myself, I'd be in jail already. Obviously, because Doyle was a Brick employee, he is somehow above the law. It is a travesty that this murderer is still free, driving around, free to kill again. The prosecutor should step down immediately, he is clearly incompetent. Mayor Acropolis should resign and so should the Chief of Police - - the citizen's of Brick should stand up and let it be known, we have had enough corruption. DO YOUR JOBS OR GET OUT!!!!! The family should immediately file a Civil Law Suit against the Brick Police, the prosecutor and the drunken murderer !!! My thoughts and prayers are with the Briffa family.

I see nothing in the comments or the original news story about who served this guy so much booze and then let him drive off? Is this being hidden?

I am very sorry that this has happend. I am sorry that a young man has lost his life and his family and friends will miss him dearly. I am sorry that his family has had to suffer. I am also sorry that Pat has had to live through such an aweful event, he has dedicated his life to children and one stupid mistake made all the good he has done disappear. I am sorry that the family and friends of Anthony do not get closure. I hope that this story will make people think before they drink and drive. I know way to many people who risk others lives every day. This is so sad!

Clamdigger and brickresident2, your comments are just dumb, so kindly shut the fuck up.

You mother fuckers talk like you are gods gift to this world, and everything you say are the words of wisdom...and we all should just abide by them...Fuck that.

Rule #1 of driving, Pedestrians have the right of way NO MATTER WHAT.

Needless to say Doyle had marijuana and was mostly likely giving a delayed BAC test, and came in at .08 | .08 is illegal and consider a DUI in the state of NJ.

So as I stated earlier kindly SHUT THE FUCK UP because not having closure with my brother and reading retarded comments that you and brickresident are leaving do NOT help.

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For the user that requested a photo of Doyle, here it is.
http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/654*368/PHI+pat+doyle.jpg
(he has shaven his head since this photo)

If you want to see how sick our auto statutes are, go to municipal court and see Judge LePore almost choke and get sick because his hands are tied when handing down a sentence. We need better laws to keep ANY drinker perminantly off the roads.

You could get a ham sandwich indicted and if this guy was black or didn't hang out with the mayor or was lower income he would ave been indcted.

Anthony was a good son and I miss him a lot.To all the good people out there who wants the right things for my son to be done THANK YOU.Please keep my son Anthony in your prayers.......Thanks.

Anthony and his Family , your in my prayers, OC prosecutor and Doyle ..your NOT !! Nuff said; Clean house in O.C. Rep. Club...The Good Old Boys !

it isn't trayvon martin!!! not racial!!! noone cares!!!

LIsten I don't know who this boy is that was killed in my town. My condolences to the family. My jaw completely dropped when I read this article. What the heck is going on with the system here people. So if this was a non township employee they would drag him through the mud.. I don't care who you are, when something devastating like this happens and all he gets is a slap on the wrist. COMPLETELY UNEXCEPTABLE! I'm ashamed to say I live in this town.

Stop the cover-up! Until Doyle is brought to justice, Anthony will not have justice. Bring in the state to review what really happened and investigate the locals. Helen Keller would even know what's happening here! Jack

This is the LAW from the State website....when they finally find a judge who isn't a friend of the Doyle family he should be doing at least 180 days in jail....
Penalties and Consequences
Here are the fines and punishments that will need to be dealt with when you are facing these charges for a third DUI in New Jersey offense:
There is a minimum fine of $1000.
The loss of license shall be at least 10 years and possibly more.
There will need to be a minimum of 180 days spent in jail.
The DMV will charge any violators an additional $1000 for three years if the conviction occurs within three years of the most recent conviction then it will be $1500 per year for three years.
There will need to be an ignition interlock device installed on the car for 1 to 3 years after reinstatement of license after ten years.
There is no work driving privileges during the minimum 10 year license suspension.

This is just such a disgusting story. My heart and prayers go out to the Briffa family, and my utter contempt to the Ocean County Prosecutor and the "politicians" of Brick. Two years ago, I was nearly hit broadside in the parking lot of the Bank of America on Brick Blvd. That's right, the parking lot. A woman was driving North on 70 and for some reason left the roadway, and entered the parking lot at a very high rate of speed. I actually had to quickly back up to avoid being hit on the driver's side of my car. She then left the parking lot, still speeding, and came to a stop when she hit one of the bank signs. While entering the lot she managed to hit a utility pole and another sign. I ran up to her car to see if she was ok, and she seemed "disoriented". She had a young child, in the front seat of her car, and fortunately he was not injured. The police and fire trucks arrived and I spoke to one of the police and gave my account. While I was talking to him, apparently his superior called him on his walkie talkie and they talked for while. Then the superior, who knew I was standing there, per the officer, told the officer to turn off the sound and make phone him (so I could not hear what was being said). I was never called as a witness, no one from the police department EVER followed up with me, and there was never any mention of it in the papers. The accident tied up Rte 70 for several hours, but I never read or heard another word about it. Wonder who's relative she was.

People should know the following: (1) Pat Doyle and Steve Acropolis have been friends since High School. They both graduated Brick 1975. Probably played hockey together.
(2) Pat Doyle has not been a good drinker for years (many people around town can attest to this (3) Pat previously worked for Brick but was let go while domestic abuse charges were lodged against him; he then got hooked up with a job in Toms Riverr through his childhood friend, the Judge; and subsequently was rehired in Brick by Acropolis after losing the TR job. His connections with the mayor of Brick, the former mayor of TR, a judge, and others have clearly helped Pat avoid justice. (4) The defence lawyer Dolye hired previously worked with the prosecutor's office and probably knows the current prosecutor on a first name basis

so what do we do???? Baaaa!!

The good old boys club @ work here and HOW it was presented BY the OC Prosecutor to " The Grand Jury " , they have boundaries and guide lines they ( Jury ) HAVE to follow....when presented !!!!! Someone tied someones hands on this ...period.

George Gilmore..Who is this guy..I see his name in any thing within BRICKTOWN ?????Is he a GOD ...

I hate to hear this and it saddens me it really does.... i miss him i really do.. Anthony is my cousin and i will always love and miss him... R.I.P Anthony. Doyle should have been charged he was drinking and driving.

Pat "Patty" Doyle
cell # 848-448-2621
pdutz65@aol.com