Things Get Heated As Alleged Pooping Superintendent Back In Court

HOLMDEL, NJ — The Asbury Park Press attended the most recent court hearing Monday in the ongoing saga of the ex-superintendent accused of pooping on the Holmdel High School track, and things reportedly got heated in the courtroom.

Thomas Tramaglini has since quit his job as Kenilworth schools superintendent and there have been reports he intends to sue the Holmdel police department for $1 million. He said Holmdel police unfairly took a mugshot of him, among other complaints he had after he was arrested May 1 and charged with pooping on the Holmdel High track on a near "daily" basis.

"It's like getting photographed and fingerprinted for a speeding ticket," Adams told nj.com of the fact that his client had his mugshot taken by Holmdel police.

At one point, the judge, municipal prosecutor Steven Zabarsky and defense attorney Matt Adams were all raising their voices Monday in court, the APP reported.

Adams reportedly tried to raise several legal objections surrounding his client's arrest, but municipal court Judge Mary Casey would only allow one. The main issue Tramaglini's lawyer is now arguing is that they want to see the original video camera and memory card used to record the near "daily" defecation allegedly done by Tramaglini on the football field and track.

After the track and football team kept stumbling over human feces, Holmdel Police Patrolman Jonathan Martin first tried to use one of the school cameras to find out what was happening, the APP reported.

But when that camera didn't work, he had to borrow a video camera from a school custodian. He then burned the parts relevant to the investigation onto a DVD, which became the main evidence in the case. He then gave the video camera and accompanying memory card back to the custodian, who has since recorded over it.

Tramaglini's high-priced lawyer, Matt Adams, who usually represents those accused of white-collar crimes —not alleged public poopers — is arguing they want to see the original video camera and memory card because he said there are "discrepancies" in the timeline of events.

There is no telling how Judge Mary Casey will rule on Tramaglini's requests.

All photos taken on Tramaglini's initial Holmdel court appearance on June 12, 2018. Taken by Carly Baldwin/Holmdel Patch