Crime & Safety
Police Officer In Jersey City Charged With Falsifying Report
The officer changed the details of a crash involving his police car, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said.
JERSEY CITY, NJ — A Jersey City Police Officer was arrested on Friday on a charge relating to a falsified police report he submitted while on duty, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said.
Joseph Ross, 36, was charged with one count of false reporting to a law enforcement officer, a fourth degree crime.
He was arrested without incident at the Prosecutor’s Office in Jersey City and released on a summons pending his first court appearance on Wednesday, June 1.
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An investigation by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Public Integrity Unit and the Jersey
City Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit determined Ross was involved in a motor vehicle
collision in his marked police car on Thursday, Feb. 10 of this year, prosecutors said.
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Prosecutors said that Ross later reported that the vehicle was involved in a hit-and-run crash at a different location.
No further information was available.
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