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NJ Corrections Officer Charged With Sucker-Punching Handcuffed Delinquent NJ Corrections Officer Charged With Sucker-Punching Handcuffed Delinquent
NJ Corrections Officer Charged With Sucker-Punching Handcuffed Delinquent A senior correctional police officer at a state youth facility in Burlington County punched a handcuffed inmate twice, knocking his head against a wall, while colleagues were holding him, authorities charged. Two other officers at the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility in Bordentown were holding the inmate with his back turned when Jason Parks, 40, of Gibbstown, struck him twice in the head this past Feb. 19, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Wednesday. “The force of the blows knocked the inmate’s head against a wall,” Grewal said, noting that the “use of force under th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Child Porn Case: Ex-NJ Youth Corrections Officer Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen Child Porn Case: Ex-NJ Youth Corrections Officer Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen
Child Porn Case: Ex-NJ Youth Corrections Officer Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen A former state youth facility corrections officer from Ocean County was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for trafficking child porn. Michael A. Ruggiero, 38, of Lacey Township, was nabbed by federal Homeland Security agents after an online contact of his was arrested in Canada, authorities said. Members of the Saskatchewan Police Service contacted them after finding online exchanges between a man they took into custody for downloading and sharing images of child sexual abuse off a mobile app and a user in the U.S. IP addresses led the agents to Ruggiero, who was living in Berkel…

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by Jerry DeMarco