There were also more than a dozen officers investigated for illegal steroid use in 2018, NJ.com reported. Michael Dotro had pleaded guilty to attempted murder and arson.īefore that, Dotro had agreed to a plea deal in 2016, along with three fellow township officers stemming from a retaliation case involving a North Brunswick police officer, according to New Brunswick Today. In 2017, Judge Jimenez sentenced an Edison officer to 20 years in prison for firebombing his supervisor's home. Investigators said Mpletsakis also stole from the Police Benevolent Association.Īccording to Ciccone, he used his executive position on the Edison PBA Local 75 to cheat Edison Township and the police union, using a PBA debit card for his own personal use. Mpletsakis, Panagoulakos, Makras and Rossmeyer have been accused of signing up to direct traffic for utility companies or providing security for local businesses at times when they still had their regular police responsibilities to carry out. The judge’s order allowed for the state to re-present the case once grand jury proceedings had resumed after the public health emergency.Ī lengthy internal affairs investigation determined that from 2016 to 2018, officers were involved in a scheme aimed at exploiting the Edison Police Department’s extra duty job assignments, prosecutors said. In April 2020, Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Pedro Jimenez dismissed the case against Mpletsakis, Panagoulakos, Makras and Rossmeyer during a remote hearing. The remaining four men pleaded not guilty. Paul Pappas took a plea deal a year later, M圜entralJersey reported. witness tampering, retaliating against a witness and retaliation for past official actionĬharges were first announced against the officers in October 2018, along with a fifth officer - the latest in a decades-long history of criminal behavior among township cops. falsifying documents, failure to pay income tax, filing fraudulent tax returns hindering apprehension, fabricating evidence official misconduct, pattern of official misconduct

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