Officers face charges including racketeering, conspiracy, bribery, theft, money laundering, official misconduct, pattern of official misconduct, the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office said Friday.
that they didn’t work among other crimes, the latest allegations to hit the embattled department in New Jersey’s fifth largest municipality.
The officers — Sgt. Ioannis Mpletsakis, 43, of Edison, Patrolman James Panagoulakos, 36, of Jackson, Patrolman Gregory Makras, 38, of Cranford, and Sgt.
“A lengthy internal affairs investigation determined that from 2016 to 2018 officers were involved in a scheme designed to exploit the Edison Police Department’s extra duty job assignments, by getting paid for extra-duty jobs for which they did not appear,” Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Thomas Bryan said in a joint statement.
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