State investigators are looking into whether a New Jersey cop 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 made off with a large amount of narcotics that was seized as evidence – possibly including cocaine.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office confirmed Thursday that it has launched a criminal investigation into the conduct of sworn officers from the Bergen County agency, but did not provide additional details.
The Attorney General’s Office did not release the officer’s name and did not charge the officer with a 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 spokeswoman for the Attorney General said.
“No further information is available at this time,” the spokesperson said in an email.
Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office in Hackensack, NJ. State authorities are investigating whether officials from the agency stole drugs from the evidence room, sources said. BCPONJ/Facebook
The prosecutor’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Headed by Mark Musella, the office is the top law enforcement agency in Bergen County, a fairly wealthy region of just under a million people in the northeastern corner of the Garden State.
The office investigates major crimes and oversees each of the county’s 76 police departments.
However, it is unclear who the officer was or what drugs he may have stolen. Adobe stock
It answers to the attorney general’s office, which is the lead police agency in New Jersey.
Most recently, the prosecutor’s office has come under fire for its questionable handling of the investigation into a fatal car accident involving the wife of Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ).
Investigators reportedly filed an erroneous account of the crash, in which Nadine Arslanian Menendez struck and killed Richard Koop, 49, as he crossed the street in a small North Jersey suburb in December 2018.
The District Attorney’s Fatal Accident Unit is also investigating the wife of US Senator Bob Menendez after she was involved in a fatal car accident in December 2018. Alamy Stock Photo
BCPO investigators mischaracterized elements of the crash, according to the New York Times, which further supports the conclusion that he was not at fault in the accident.
The scandal – and the couple’s indictment for allegedly conspiring to work as foreign agents for Egypt, among other charges – has dented Menendez’s approval ratings and led many to believe that the Teflon-coated former senator had reached the end of his political life.
Menendez and his wife have each pleaded not guilty.
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