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An expert in forensics and fingerprints, 63-year-old “Chet” Robinson was involved in more than 1,000 crime-scene cases, helping to bring hundreds of criminals to justice, while working for the sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification.
He “loved his work as an officer of the law,” his family said.
What’s more, they said, he was “delighted to discover his Native American heritage, and became very involved and active on a council representing the Lenape and Cherokee Indians of New Jersey.”
Robinson began his law enforcement career with the Haworth Police Department before joining the county Prosecutor’s Office, where he worked undercover drug investigations.
He joined the county Sheriff’s Office in 1989.
Robinson served for a time as vice-president of Sheriff’s Officers’ PBA Local 134, whose members “will always be remembered in our hearts,” Local President Marcelo Hagopin told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
He leaves behind a wife, Jody, and three daughters — Denise Robinson-McKinley, Kelly Robinson, and Kasey Robinson — as well as five grandchildren (Khadira, Aisa, Mia, Noelle and Aria) a great-grandchild, Akira, his brother Herbert and sister-in-law Andrea Robinson.
Services are scheduled from 5-7 o’clock tonight at Trinity Church, 228 Passaic Street in Hackensack. These will be followed by creamtion at the Earl I. Jones Funeral Home, 305 First Street in Hackensack.
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