Mar 3, 2025 | allowing the business to reopen | bribery | Broad Street | Essex County Prosecutor’s Office | Newark business | Newark code enforcement officer arrested | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Official Misconduct | OPIA Corruption Bureau | soliciting bribes | soliciting or accepting any benefit to influence the performance of an official duty | theft by extortion | withholding fines | 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 that a Newark code enforcement officer has been arrested and charged after allegedly soliciting bribes from a Newark business in exchange for withholding fines and allowing the business to reopen after she had shut it down.
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.
