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Sgt. John Giammetta, who is suing O’Connor, the township and the Police Department in an unrelated civil case, issued the chief a summons on April 18 for abandoning a white GMC pickup without license plates at the corner of Orient Way and Sixth Avenue.
The vehicle had “for-sale” on the front and rear windshields.
However, Central Municipal Court Judge Ray McGeady yeseterday tossed out the ticket.
Giammetta and O’Connor have been at odds over several issues the past decade.
More recently, the sergeant has fought reassignment this spring to patrol several areas of town to secure public playgrounds and bathrooms. He contends the chief did so to get back at him.
O’Connor said the move is a personnel matter that he cannot discuss publicly, but added that Giammetta knows why he was reassigned.
In a suit against the chief and the department, Giammetta alleges that O’Connor ordered him to quash threats by the son of a prominent family to “take a baseball bat” to his father’s head and then retaliated against him when he refused, among other complaints.
If Giammetta sticks to his complaint — his third suit against O’Connor and Lyndhurst — a trial wouldn’t begin until February, the earliest.
“The allegations are baseless and untrue,” O’Connor told CLIFFVIEW PILOT last year. “I look forward to our day in court.”
Neither Giammetta nor O’Connor could immediately be reached for comment.
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