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Middletown Police Officer Admits Lying About On-Duty Crash Middletown Police Officer Admits Lying About On-Duty Crash
Middletown Police Officer Admits Lying About On-Duty Crash A 33-year-old former Middletown police officer admitted to falsifying the report on an on-duty crash in his police car, authorities said. Thomas E. Foster was assigned to a road repair project on Cedar Avenue in Middletown July 3, when he crashed into a telephone pole while reversing out of a parking spot, near his home, a few blocks away from the road work, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said. An investigation found that Foster had actually backed the cruiser into a parked pickup truck on Cedar Avenue, damaging both vehicles, the prosecutor said. Foster, w…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Authorities: Middletown Police Officer Filed Fake Accident Report Authorities: Middletown Police Officer Filed Fake Accident Report
Authorities: Middletown Police Officer Filed Fake Accident Report A Middletown police officer filed a false report after getting into an accident with his police cruiser, authorities said. Thomas E. Foster, 33, of Keyport, has been charged with falsifying records, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said in a statement. Foster was working near a road repair project on Cedar Avenue in Middletown on July 3, 2019, when an accident occurred. Foster filed a report claiming that while he was backing his patrol car out of a parking spot, he “contacted a telephone pole.". It was later discovered that Foster in fact backed the police cruiser int…

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by Jon Craig