Fugitive Busted After Applying For Hudson County Sheriff's Office Job

HUDSON COUNTY — After a woman recently applied for a security guard job at the Hudson County Sheriff's Office, the office did a background check and found that she had 11 bench warrants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, officials said.

Zyeama Y. Johnson, 27, of Jersey City was charged with being a fugitive from justice on Tuesday, as well as other charges, a spokesperson for the Sheriff's office said.

She "was found to have an active bench warrant out of Monroe County, Pennsylvania for failure to appear in court on charges of fraud, and an additional 10 bench warrants for failure to appear in court on traffic charges in Jersey City," the office said.

After confirming the validity of the Pennsylvania warrant, a detective from the Sheriff’s Office took Johnson into custody.

The office said that when searching her property after the arrest, sheriff’s officers found two credit cards believed to be stolen, and she was then also charged with credit card theft.

Sheriff's department members discovered that Johnson had worked for the U.S. Postal Service in the past, and contacted them. The Postal Service has launched its own investigation, the Sheriff's Office said.