Mounting debts ate away at detective Judgments a glimpse at cop’s money woes

The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) BYLINE: RALPH R. ORTEGA, STAR-LEDGER STAFF Franklin Township, NJ A Franklin Township police detective’s suicide earlier this year came after debt collectors, banks and credit card companies demanded he pay thousands of...

Evidence room containing guns, drugs, fetuses, was mismanaged

Asbury Park Press (New Jersey) BYLINE: Sheila McLaughlin Middletown, NJ Hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash was lying around. Crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs from criminal cases were tossed haphazardly in a metal bin. Then, there were the two fetuses in...

Evidence room containing guns, drugs, fetuses, was mismanaged

Asbury Park Press (New Jersey) BYLINE: Sheila McLaughlin Middletown, NJ Hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash was lying around. Crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs from criminal cases were tossed haphazardly in a metal bin. Then, there were the two fetuses in...

How theft plot unraveled; Officer left trail while stealing drugs

Herald News (Passaic County, NJ) BYLINE: By PAUL BRUBAKER Passaic County, NJ Granulated sugar spilling from plastic bags in a police evidence room was just one of the things that unraveled what would have been a perfect crime. So obvious was the clumsy replacement...

How theft plot unraveled; Officer left trail while stealing drugs

Herald News (Passaic County, NJ) BYLINE: By PAUL BRUBAKER Passaic County, NJ Granulated sugar spilling from plastic bags in a police evidence room was just one of the things that unraveled what would have been a perfect crime. So obvious was the clumsy replacement...

Township settles suit with estate of Franklin detective who killed self

Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, New Jersey) Franklin Township, NJ The township has settled a lawsuit it filed against the estate of Detective William Furmick, who committed suicide in his office nearly a year ago. The lawsuit claimed that Furmick’s wife,...