The New Jersey cop who killed a fellow officer and a friend after partying at a Staten Island strip club had twice been charged with drunk driving — and a police dash camera from one of the incidents shows him sobbing as he struggles to complete a sobriety test.
Pedro Abad, a six-year veteran of the Linden Police Department, crashed his BMW 335 into a parked car in a school zone in Rahway, NJ, and then refused to take any tests after the incident early Feb. 26, 2013, according to the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission records.
A police dash cam obtained by NJ.com shows the cop stumbling, slurring his words and begging the arresting officers to let him speak to an “Officer Webb,” who was on scene that morning and whom he claimed to know from the academy.
“At this point, Officer Webb has nothing to do with my investigation right now, OK?” an officer can be heard saying, as Abad whimpers in the background.
The officers repeatedly order Abad to perform simple tasks like walking in a straight line, but the wasted cop simply sits on the hood of his car crying, the video shows.
The officers then cuff him after he wobbles along in a lame attempt to prove he is not drunk.
The police report from the incident describes Abad as smelling of booze and having bloodshot, droopy eyes and slurred speech, NJ.com reported.
He was allowed to keep driving until he went before a judge in October of that year, who decided to suspend his license for seven months for the DUI, as well as a previous violation for talking on a cellphone in the summer of 2012.
His driving privileges were restored in May 2014, but the judge ordered that Abad have an ignition interlock device installed in his car that he would have to blow into every time he got behind the wheel and would prevent him from putting the car in gear unless he were sober.
Abad was slapped with another DUI in Roselle, NJ, back in January 2011, but the details of that incident were not immediately clear, according to NJ.com.
The device was removed in September of that year, officials said.
Neighbors have told The Post that Abad, who lives with his parents at their Linden home, would regularly pull into the driveway and stumble out of his car.
Linden police Capt. James Sarnicki said any discipline would be an internal personnel matter and would not be made public.
Meanwhile, the NYPD on Monday received a search warrant to test a blood sample taken from Abad shortly after last Friday’s fatal crash that will determine if he was drunk at the time. The results of that test are not yet known, police sources said.
Abad was behind the wheel when the men left Curves Gentleman’s Club in Staten Island and drove the wrong way on the West Shore Expressway, plowing into an 18-wheeler.
The wreck flattened his tiny Honda Civic, killing two passengers: fellow cop Frank Viggiano and friend Joseph Rodriguez, both 28.
Abad and his partner, Officer Patrik Kudlac, 23, were both pulled from the wreckage alive but critically injured. Both men are fighting for their lives at Staten Island hospitals.
Each of the three cops had less than six years on the job, according to Linden police officials.
The trucker, Brandon Lee Getz, 33, tried to swerve his big rig out of the path of the wayward sedan, but smashed into it, authorities have said. He suffered only minor injuries.
Hours before the crash, Abad and his entourage were living it up at a Roselle, NJ, sports bar, where they devoured sushi and posted a photo of a round of shots Abad identified on his Instagram page as “Jack Daniel’s Fire.”
The men later drove to Staten Island and spent several hours at the strip club before embarking on their ill-fated ride home.