State investigators are investigating whether a New Jersey police officer stole kilos of illegal drugs from an evidence room at the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, The Post has learned.
Law enforcement sources said investigators believe the officer took a significant amount of narcotics that had been seized as evidence, possibly including cocaine.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office confirmed Thursday that it had launched a criminal investigation into the conduct of a sworn Bergen County agency officer, but did not provide additional details.
The attorney general’s office did not release the officer’s name and did not charge him with any crime.
The state Office of Public Integrity and Accountability and the Division of Criminal Justice – as well as the county’s Confidential Investigations Unit – are conducting the investigation, a spokesperson for the attorney general said.
“No further information is available at this time,” the spokesperson said in an email.
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office in Hackensack, New Jersey. State authorities are investigating whether an agency officer stole drugs from an evidence room, sources said. BCPONJ/Facebook
The prosecutor’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Led by Mark Musella, the office is the main law enforcement agency in Bergen County, a fairly wealthy region of just under a million people in the northeast corner of the Garden State.
The office investigates serious crimes and oversees each of the county’s 76 police departments.
However, it is unclear who the officer is or what drugs he may have stolen. AdobeStock
It reports to the attorney general’s office, which is New Jersey’s main law enforcement agency.
More recently, the prosecutor’s office came under fire for its questionable handling of the investigation into a fatal car crash involving the wife of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.).
Investigators reportedly presented an error-filled account of the crash, in which Nadine Arslanian Menendez struck and killed Richard Koop, 49, as he crossed a street in a small North Jersey suburb in December 2018.
The prosecutor’s Fatal Accident Unit also investigated the wife of U.S. Senator Bob Menendez after she was in a fatal car accident in December 2018. Alamy Stock Photo
BCPO investigators mischaracterized elements of the accident, according to the New York Times, which in turn reinforced the conclusion that she was not at fault for the accident.
The scandal – and the couple’s indictment for allegedly conspiring to work as a foreign agent for Egypt, among other charges – has plunged Menendez’s approval ratings and led many to believe that the Teflon-covered former senator has come to the end. of his political life.
Menendez and his wife pleaded not guilty.
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