The New Jersey man accused of the hit-and run killing of Jason Smith Levittown in a McDonald’s parking lot last February had three charged dropped by prosecutors at a preliminary hearing on Wednesday.

Daniel Dietrich, 44 of Palmyra, New Jersey appeared before Judge Kevin P. Wagner on Wednesday in Bristol Township. According to online court records, three of the four original charges – accidents involving death or personal injury, accidents involving death or injury while not licensed, were “withdrawn.”

Dietrich who is represented by Steven Jones, Esq. of Begley Carlin & Mandio Llp waived his right to the preliminary hearing on the one remaining count of criminal homicide.

Attempts to reach investigators and Jones on Wednesday for comment on the decision to drop the three charges were unsuccessful.

Dietrich’s arrest came as a result of a tip investigators received a little more than a month after Smith was struck and killed. 

Dietrich’s next court appearance will be at the Court of Common Pleas on May 12 for his formal arraignment.