Offficer involved in fatal crash placed on leave.

NEW HAVEN — A police officer authorities say was driving the car involved in a fatal crash in Las Vegas, Nev., has been placed on administrative leave while the New Haven Police Department conducts its own investigation, officials announced Saturday.

Robert Ferraro, a 34year-old New Haven police officer, was charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving, according to Nevada court records on Friday.

Ferraro will be placed on administrative leave with pay per the New Haven Police Department’s policy, and the police department will conduct its own investigation, Acting New Haven Police Chief Renee Dominguez said in a news conference Saturday.

Ferraro has been with the New Haven Police Department since 2015, according to the New Haven Independent.

Authorities said Ferraro was driving a 2020 Rolls Royce Cullinan around 4 a.m. Friday when he entered an intersection at a high speed and began to lose control. He then drove off the side of the road, colliding with a 2021 Ford Mustang, utility poles, landscaping and a fire hydrant.

The car turned onto its roof, ejecting fellow New Haven officer Joshua Castellano from the vehicle. Castellano later died at the hospital, according to a news release from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

New Haven officers Matthew Borges and John Truhart, as well as two women from San Antonio, Texas, were also in the vehicle and suffered minor injuries, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Borges and Truhart will not be placed on administrative leave, Dominguez said.

Ferraro was in court in Nevada on Saturday afternoon. His bail was increased from $5,000 to $100,000, WFSB reported.

WFSB said Ferraro was released on the condition that he stay out of trouble, avoids alcohol, doesn’t drive and wears an electronic monitoring bracelet.

Ferraro’s next court date is Tuesday, according to court records.