Apr 30, 2025 | City Council Seat | forged ballots and voter registrations | Haledon | new charges | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Paterson City Council President Alex Mendez | Paterson resident | Paterson’s May 2020 municipal election | stole ballots | superseding indictment | Third Ward | three alleged co-conspirators | Vote-By-Mail | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced that Paterson City Council President Alex Mendez along with three alleged co-conspirators and another Paterson resident are facing new charges in a superseding indictment that alleges they stole ballots, forged ballots and voter registrations, and submitted them to help Mendez win Paterson’s May 2020 municipal election.
Apr 21, 2025 | 911 Call | active shooter | Columbia Street | East Stroudsburg | Fatal Police Encounter | footage | Independent Prosecutor Directive | Knowlton | Lehigh Valley Hospital | medical episode | Mount Pocono Regional | New Jersey State Troopers | NJSP | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | one female victim | Pennsylvania | police body-worn cameras | radio and communication transmissions | Warren County | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
The Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) released footage from police body-worn cameras, as well as radio and communication transmissions and a 911 call, capturing the events surrounding an individual’s death on February 12, 2024 following an encounter with New Jersey State Troopers
Apr 11, 2025 | "No Bill" | 911 call domestic dispute | Attorney General Directive 2019-4 | autopsy results | ballistics results | Fatal Police Shooting | Hamilton | Independent Prosecutor Directive | interviews | intoxicated | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | photographs | review of body worn camera footage | standard operating procedures (SOPs) | State Grand Jury | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
A state grand jury has voted not to file any criminal charges at the conclusion of its deliberations regarding the death of a Hamilton Township man who was fatally shot while exchanging gunfire with two Hamilton police officers, striking one of them, on March 8, 2024.
Apr 7, 2025 | conspiracy to commit aggravated assault | Forced Entry | Harding Highway | Harding Woods mobile home park | Home Invasion | New Jersey State Police Detective shooting | New Jersey State Prison | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Pittsgrove | riot | Salem County Courthouse | Sentencing | Witness Tampering | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced the sentencings of four defendants involved in events that led to the shooting of a New Jersey State Police (NJSP) detective by other individuals at a Salem County mobile home park.
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.
