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No, 19-101
Date of Adoption Jive 6 2019
FORWARDING REQUEST FOR AN INVESTIGATION BY THE NEW JERSEY ATTORNEY
GENERAL'S OFFICE INTO THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY PROSECUTOR OFFICE'S
CONDUCT TOWARD THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET AND ITS OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS
WHEREAS, Mayor Reiman has formally requested that the New Jersey Attorney General's Office
investigate the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office's asserted malicious abuse of power directed at the
Mayor and the Carteret Police Department; a copy of Mayor Reiman's letter is attached hereto detailing the
basis for this request; and
WHEREAS, as noted in the Mayor's correspondence, this request follows the May 24, 2019 determination
by a Middlesex County jury, following a month long trial, to acquit Borough of Carteret Police Officer
Joseph Reiman on all charges brought against him by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office in the
matter of State v. Reiman; and
WHEREAS, the Prosecutor's Office leveled these charges against Officer Reiman related to his arrest of a
suspect following the suspect's high -speed efforts to evade detection and apprehension by the Carteret
Police while out driving underage, in a vehicle being operated without the permission of its owner, and
while on probation for other delinquent conduct; and
WHEREAS, Mayor Reiman has requested this review by the Attorney General's Office due to Middlesex
County Prosecutor Andrew Carey's Office's conduct in this and other Carteret police related matters; and
WHEREAS, the Governing Body supports a full and complete investigation by the New Jersey Attorney
General's Office into these allegations as they relate to the Carteret Police Department; and specifically
into any role by the Prosecutor's Office to suppress the charges filed against the suspect ultimately
apprehended by Officer Reiman; and
WHEREAS, the Borough's residents, under New Jersey law, are now facing a claim for hundreds of
thousands of dollars in legal fees on behalf of Officer Reiman as a result of the jury's acquittal of Officer
Reiman on all of the charges brought against him by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Borough Council of the Borough of Carteret as
follows:
1. That the New Jersey Attorney General's Office conduct a full investigation
into the allegations presented in Mayor Reiman's letter of May 30, 2019, to
include a review of any action undertaken by the Middlesex County
Prosecutor's Office to suppress any of the multiple charges that had been
filed against the suspect apprehended by the Carteret Police Department on
the early morning of May 31, 2017.
2. That a copy of this Resolution be forwarded to the New Jersey Attorney
General's Office.
Adopted this 6'` day of June, 2019
and certified as a true copy of the
original on June 7, 2019.
KATHLEEN M. BARNEY, MMC
Municipal Clerk
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Adopted at a meeting of the Municipal Council
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6, 2019
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