Mar 20, 2025 | crime victims | exploiting professional relationship | financial reimbursement | Indictment | intimate relationship | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Official Misconduct | Pattern of official misconduct | Point Pleasant | Sexually Explicit texts | sexually-explicit messages | sexually-suggestive messages | VCCO investigator | victimization | Victims of Crime Compensation Office (VCCO) | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity | Sexual Assault Victims
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced that a former investigator for the New Jersey Victims of Crime Compensation Office (VCCO) has been indicted after allegedly exploiting his official position to send messages solicitous of an intimate relationship, sexually-suggestive messages, or sexually-explicit messages to crime victims who were seeking VCCO support.
Mar 12, 2025 | Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office (BCPO) | cash deposits | cocaine | Corruption Bureau | evading a transaction reporting requirement | evidence vault | fentanyl | filing a fraudulent tax return | Financial facilitation of criminal activity | Indictment | lieutenant | narcotics | NJSP Laboratory | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Official Misconduct | Pattern of official misconduct | possession of a controlled dangerous substance | Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Dangerous Substance | removed and tampered with drug evidence | seized illegal drugs | Special Victims Unit | Structuring one or more transactions | Tampering with Physical Evidence | Tampering with public records or information | 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 indicted a suspended Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office (BCPO) lieutenant after he allegedly removed and tampered with drug evidence, including cocaine and fentanyl, on multiple occasions.
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.
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 18, 2024 | 2021 Primary for N.J. Governor | ballot | Campaign Manager | Democratic Primary Ballot | fraudulent nominating petitions | Fraudulently Placed Candidates | Indictment | Investigation | New Jersey State Department’s Division of Elections | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | p | Sentencing | State Grand Jury | 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 the sentencing of a campaign manager from Hunterdon County for attempting to fraudulently place a candidate on the Democratic primary ballot in the New Jersey governor’s race in 2021.
