Oct 30, 2024 | aggravated assault | Beachwood | Burlington County | Chesterfield | Correctional police officers | Cover-up | False reports | falsifying or tampering with records | five senior corrections officers | forced cell extraction | forceful removal | Garden State Youth Correctional Facility | improper or excessive use of force | Indictment | infirmary | inhaler | Inmate | New Egypt | New Jersey Department of Corrections(DOC) | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Official Misconduct | OPIA | OPIA Corruption Bureau | oxygen | pepper spraying | Senior Corrections Officer Christopher Toth | Senior Corrections Officer Mark Sadlowski Jr. | Senior Corrections Officer Michael Ambrozaitis | Senior Corrections Officer Michael Gaines | Senior Corrections Officer Raymond Quinones | sergeant | Sewell | Sgt. Michael Emmert | Southampton | Special Investigations Division (SID) | Tampering with Public Records | Toms River | Willingboro | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced a state grand jury has voted to file charges against six correctional police officers in connection with the 2020 assault of an inmate at the New Jersey Department of Corrections’ (DOC) Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Burlington County.
Oct 23, 2024 | act of violence | aggravated assault | assault | Body Worn Cameras | cumberland county | flashlight | Gibbstown | handcuffs | New Jersey State Police (NJSP) | New Jersey Superior Court | NJ State Trooper | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | punch | Sentencing | Upper Deerfield Township | New Jersey State Police | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced the sentencing of a former New Jersey State Police (NJSP) trooper for a September 2022 assault in Cumberland County, in which he punched a woman in the face while holding a metal flashlight, as the victim was handcuffed in the back seat of a police vehicle.
Aug 23, 2024 | aggravated assault | Aggravated Manslaughter | County Road 521 | death by auto | decedent | eluding | Fatal Crash | Hope Township | Investigation | New Jersey State Police | NJSP | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | OPIA | pursuit | Warren County Prosecutor's Office | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
The Attorney General’s Office today identified the decedent, the driver who allegedly struck his motorcycle, and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) Trooper involved in a police pursuit and fatal crash on August 13, 2024, in Hope Township, Warren County, New Jersey.
Dec 7, 2023 | aggravated assault | Criminal Charges | Grand Jury | Official Misconduct | Paterson | Police Shooting | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability today announced that a state grand jury has voted to file criminal charges against a Paterson police officer who allegedly shot a fleeing man in the back in June 2022, leaving the victim paralyzed.
Nov 17, 2023 | aggravated assault | New Jersey State Trooper | NJSP | OPIA | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) today announced that a trooper with the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) has been charged after, as alleged, he punched a woman in the face while holding a flashlight in his hand.
