Mar 5, 2025 | addiction and substance abuse disorders | and Gutierrez Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) | CDS | CDS processing and packaging | Conspiracy | DCJ | digital scales | Division of Criminal Justice | fentanyl | grinders | heroin | Indictment | Lodi | NJ CARES | North New Jersey | Office of Alternative and Community Responses (OACR) | Office of the New Jersey Coordinator of Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies | Operation Helping Hand | opioid epidemic | Opioid Mills | Paterson | Racketeering | Rodriguez | rubber bands | Sanchez | sifters | wax folds | wood-handle stamps and ink pads | Battling the Opioid Epidemic | Division of Criminal Justice | NJ CARES | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice announced a 53-count state grand jury indictment charging 20 people for their alleged roles in operating opioid mills in North Jersey.
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.
Feb 19, 2025 | Beachwood | certain persons not to have weapons | Conspiracy | Division of Criminal Justice | drugs | Firearms | ghost guns | Gun Violence Reduction Task Force | illegal possession and distribution | manufacture transport disposition and defacement of a weapon | methamphetamine | New Jersey State Police’s Crime Suppression South Unit | Ocean County | possession of a controlled dangerous substance | possession of a defaced firearm | possession of a firearm without a serial number | possession of a handgun | possession of a large capacity ammunition magazine | possession of an assault firearm | possession of brass knuckles | possession of methamphetamine | Stafford Township Police Department | three counts of possession of a shotgun | transporting a manufactured firearm without a serial number | Whiting | Combating Gun Violence | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice announced that two Ocean County residents were indicted on charges of illegal possession and distribution of firearms and drugs.
Jan 16, 2025 | 25 defendants | 4 companies | Camden County Prosecutor's Office | cloned credit cards | Connecticut | credit card “skimmers” | DCJ Detectives | diesel fuel theft | Division of Criminal Justice | financial fraud | fuel providers | Gloucester Township Police Department | Large-Scale Diesel Fuel Theft Scheme | Massachusetts | New Jersey | New York | peer-to-peer payments | Pennsylvania | stolen credit card information | trucking companies | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) announced charges against 25 people and four companies for their alleged roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme that used stolen credit card information to fraudulently purchase tens of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel and then resell it to trucking companies and other fuel providers.
Jan 15, 2025 | 400 investigators | Acting Mercer County Prosecutor | Chief of Staff | criminal justice policy initiatives | Deputy Solicitor General | detectives | Division of Criminal Justice | firearms safety issues | Human Trafficking Unit | Law and Public Safety | Leadership Changes | LPS | New Jersey Resiliency Program for Law Enforcement | professional personnel | Prosecutors | Senior Counsel to the Attorney General | The Office of the Attorney General | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that Deputy Director Theresa Hilton will become the Director of the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) when J. Stephen Ferketic leaves the office later this month to pursue a leadership position in the private sector. Attorney General Platkin also announced that Assistant Attorney General Sara Quigley will assume the Chief of Staff position, a position vacated late last year.
