Metro

Hit-run demon arraigned on homicide, driving charges

The callous ex-con who fled the scene of a fatal crash that killed a couple and their baby in Brooklyn was arraigned last night on charges that included three counts of criminally negligent homicide.

Julio Acevedo, 44, was also hit with charges of leaving the scene of an accident, assault and reckless driving for Sunday’s wreck, which claimed the lives of Nachman and Raizy Glauber and their baby.

DA Charles Hynes said his office was bringing “the most serious crime available based on the facts, pending a further review of all forensics.”

Police had earlier said that Acevedo would face charges of vehicular manslaughter, but prosecutors did not include that count.

Assistant DA Gayle Dampf said that Acevedo could still face up to 25 years to life on the lesser negligent-homicide charges because of his extensive criminal record.

Acevedo stood stone-faced in the Brooklyn courtroom during the hearing, at which he was held without bail. Several of his family members watched. His lawyer insisted the crash was an accident.

At the hearing, prosecutors said Acevedo had swerved around a firetruck and was accelerating as his 2010 BMW hit the couple’s Toyota Camry livery cab with the couple in it at 60 mph.

Acevedo had been brought back to New York yesterday from Bethlehem, Pa., where he had fled following the crash, which killed the Glaubers, both 21, and their son, who was delivered alive by Caesarean section after the incident.

The career criminal — who previously served time for murdering the man who inspired rapper 50 Cent’s stage name — told a judge in Allentown, Pa., yesterday that he had an 11th-grade education and lived with his mom in Brooklyn.

Ironically, Acevedo’s last job was “quality control” for Access-a-Ride vehicles to make sure they were safe. “I maintained vehicles to make sure they didn’t crash,” he said.

As Acevedo was hauled back to the city, heartbroken livery driver, Pedro Nuñez Delacruz — in whose car the doomed couple was riding — made an emotional visit to Raizy Glauber’s family in Williamsburg.

“He explained to them how sad and sorry he was about the circumstances, how he wished he would have died instead of the young couple, how he has a wife who’s pregnant and three children,” said Fernando Mateo, president of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers.

The Glauber family, which has been sitting shiva since Sunday, doesn’t blame him.

“They told him, ‘Go on with your life. This was meant to be. This is what God wanted,’ ” Mateo said.

Delacruz said he likely won’t drive a cab anymore. “When I saw my car on the news, it changed my life,” he said. “All that I think about is my family . . . I have to see if I can do something different, get another job.”

Acevedo’s pal Derrick Hamilton, meanwhile, said the driver didn’t immediately turn himself in because of his experience with the law. “He knew that these people wouldn’t believe him,” he said.

Additional reporting by Larry Celona, Jamie Schram, Reuven Fenton and Dan MacLeod