3 Indicted Woodbridge Police Officers Suspended Without Pay

Woodbridge, NJ - The three Woodbridge police officers indicted Friday by a grand jury for allegedly covering up a Rt. 9 car crash have all been suspended without pay, Patch has learned.

Officers David Hughes, 31, and Amanda Felicies, 30, have been suspended without pay since February, when the two were first arrested for lying to protect an off-duty officer who had gotten into a car crash off Rt. 9, Middlesex County prosecutors charge.

Woodbridge police confirmed Monday that Hughes and Felicies have been suspended without pay since their Feb. 26 arrest.

That off-duty officer was revealed Friday to be Patrolman Brian Joseph, 33. All three were indicted Friday for allegedly covering up the crash. As of Monday, May 9, Joseph has been suspended without pay as well, said Captain Roy Hoppock of the Woodbridge police.

May 23, 2015 crash on Rt. 9 North

The crash happened May 23, 2015. Joseph, who was off-duty at the time, was traveling north on Rt. 9 and was exiting onto West Pond Road when his Mitsubishi sport utility vehicle jumped the curb.

Felicies and Hughes were dispatched to the call. Later, suspecting a cover-up may have taken place, the Middlesex County prosecutor's office and the Woodbridge PD investigated their actions that day and in the days after the crash.

Hughes was charged with falsifying public records and tampering with public records to conceal the crash. Felicies was charged with false swearing by lying under oath to police during an investigation into the cover-up.

All three police officers, Felicies, Hughes and Joseph, were charged with two counts of official misconduct and a related count of conspiracy for failing to file a report and changing computer records that had documented the crash.

Joseph is from Perth Amboy, Hughes is from Port Reading and Felicies is from Fords.