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 18, 2025 | civil lawsuit | Consent Order | East Hanover | Firearms | Gun Store | guns | Lawsuit | Legislature | mass shootings | person prohibited from possessing a firearm | Point Blank Guns and Ammo LLC | Statewide Affirmative Firearms Enforcement Office | Unlawful Sales | Unverified Buyers | valid firearms card or permit | Combating Gun Violence | Press Release | Statewide Affirmative Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Office
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced the court-ordered settlement of a civil lawsuit against licensed firearms retailer Point Blank Guns and Ammo LLC for repeatedly selling gun-related products to undercover investigators without the buyer demonstrating that they could lawfully possess a firearm.
Mar 13, 2025 | Atlantic County man | Atlantic County Sheriff’s Office | BaldysRUS | controlled dangerous substances (CDS) | Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) | drug-induced death | fatal overdoses | fentanyl | juveniles | methamphetamine | No Early Release Act (N.E.R.A.) | Pennsylvania State Police | Percocet | prison | Sentencing | strict-liability statute | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) announced that an Atlantic County man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in providing fentanyl that resulted in two juveniles fatally overdosing on the drug.
