High Level Sex Offender Registers as Washington Twp. Resident

A tier 2 sex offender has recently registered with the New Jersey State Police as having a new address in Washington Township.

Paul E. Lazicki, 68, registered with authorities in late February as having moved to a home on Newburgh Road in Washington Township.

Lazicki was convicted in 1989 of three counts of first-degree sexual assault and two counts of sexual assault on an 8-year-old boy and sentenced to a 40-year prison term. He was ineligible for parole for the first 15 years of his sentence.

Lazicki was initially charged with conducting numerous sexual attacks on the victim, who was known to him and was in his care for periods of time. Many of the assaults occurred in an antique automobile stored in Lazicki’s barn.

Lazicki was again arrested in June 2013, according to the Bergen Record, for allegedly having criminal sexual contact with a boy under the age of 16. At the time he was jailed on $50,000 bail.

The new Washington Township resident is listed by the New Jersey State Police as a white male, 6”1’ inches tall and 160-pounds, and has a scar on his abdomen. He may also use the alias Paul Luzicki, rather than Paul Lazicki, state police said.

In a Long Valley Patch report from December 2014, it was learned six sex offenders were currently residing in Washington Township across the three tiers of the registry system. Further reporting also showed data released by the New Jersey State Police at the time only identified sex offenders at moderate and high risk of repeating, not all registered sex offenders.

Lazicki’s tier 2 status places him at moderate risk.

In February, Washington Township police were tipped off to a convicted sex offender living in Long Valley without making authorities known of his whereabouts. When police found Justin Rathfon, 23, residing at a business on West Mill Road, they also located an unregistered weapon in his possession.

Pictured: Paul Lazicki in a photo from 2013. Photo Courtesy New Jersey State Police.

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