DUI, other charges for bail bondsman

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

NORTH BERGEN - A Jersey City bail bondsman with a criminal record was charged with driving under the influence and resisting arrest after sideswiping another car, which then slammed into a tree on Bergenline Avenue Monday, officials said.

David Sainato, 41, of Kingwood Road in Weehawken, was arrested around 7:30 p.m. at his mother's home on Third Avenue near 86th Street, according to the Hudson County Sheriff's Office.

A sheriff's officer saw Sainato's Cadillac speeding up Bergenline Avenue near 84th Street, but by the time he turned the cruiser around and starting chasing him, the accident had occurred at 85th Street, reports said.

The 55-year-old woman driver of the other car complained of injuries, including chest pain from the car's airbag, and said she'd been sideswiped, reports said.

A witness told police the woman's car had been struck by a two-door Cadillac that was traveling the wrong way on Third Avenue. Police found the Cadillac on Third Avenue after it pulled into a driveway and slammed into a parked car, reports said.

Sainato was arrested after police found his speech slurred and said he had trouble standing and smelled of alcohol, reports said, adding that he struggled and tried to push the officers away.

Sainato was in prison from 1990 to 1994 on numerous counts, including conspiracy to commit arson, state corrections officials said. In July 2003 he was sentenced to four years probation after pleading guilty to a November 2000 assault by auto, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said.

Sainato owns A Daves Bail Bonds on Newark Avenue.