Mar 12, 2025 | (Central Region) | (Northern Region) | (Southern Region) | ammunition | Annandale | avoid bank reporting requirements | Bayville | Browns Mills | Burlington County | Corrections Staff Training Academy | Corruption Bureau | cumberland county | Hunterdon County | Maurice River | Mercer County | Monmouth County | New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) lieutenant | New Jersey State Police Corruption Bureau | Ocean County | Office of Public Integrity & Accountability (OPIA) | Official Misconduct | Range Master | sea Girt | Special Investigations Division | Special Operations Group Headquarters in Trenton | stole state-owned ammunition | structuring financial transactions | theft | Combating Gun Violence | Gun Violence | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity & Accountability (OPIA) announced the filing of criminal charges against a New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) lieutenant who served as NJDOC’s Range Master, after he allegedly stole state-owned ammunition from NJDOC and sold it for hundreds of thousands of dollars of profit.
Feb 28, 2025 | Buena | Burlington County | comptroller | Division of Criminal Justice | failure to pay tax | filing a fraudulent tax return | Financial facilitation of criminal activity | Forgery | Former Chief Financial Officer | Money Laundering | Not-For-Profit Company | Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions (OSFFCP) | receiving stolen property | Stealing $2.5 Million | Tax Evasion | Unlawful Taking | white-collar crime | Consumer Protection | Division of Criminal Justice | Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that the former chief financial officer and comptroller of a Burlington County-based not-for-profit company has been charged with allegedly stealing more than $2.5 million from the company, money laundering and tax evasion.
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.
Jan 18, 2024 | Burlington County | captive | commercial sex abuse or a minor | Conspiracy | criminal restraint | Division of Criminal Justice | engaging in prostitution with a minor | facilitating human trafficking | human trafficking | Indictment | Missing Persons and Human Trafficking Unit | New Jersey State Police | NJSP | NJSP Special Investigations Unit | Pennsylvania | promoting organized street crime | prostitution of a minor | sex trafficking | Sexual Assault | South Jersey Horel | Child Protection | Division of Criminal Justice | Human Trafficking | Press Release | Sexual Assault Victims
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) today announced that a state grand jury voted to file criminal charges against a suspect who was allegedly operating a human trafficking network in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
