NJ scumbag, I mean cop caught shoplifting

[geoff]

http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090811/NEWS01/90811005/1006/RSS01

just a few bad apples, right?

[Pat McCotter]

Submitted his retirement papers two days after the incident.

[lastlady]

I am shocked a cop with a salary of $113,000 a year! Holy macaroni!

[Ogre]

That shocked me, too. That seems like an awful darn lot of money.

[lastlady]

I think the salary makes me more upset than the stealing.

[geoff]

I am not shocked by the salary.  When I first moved to NJ, godforsaken as I see it now, I wanted to be a cop.  I made it to the interview level of the state police and two local branches.  Staties start off at 59.xxxK/year.  I got disqualified for that b/c even though I was not into the FSP or liberty movement, I answered interview questions with common sense about escalating/de-escalating situations, and they wanted a hardcore gestapo statist answer.  At the local level, they started out about at 35k/year, and claimed that within 8 years you would be making at least 80K.  This was after I discovered the truth about the questionable ideas I had, which at that time was basically the NAP, and they told me that they expected me to lock up at least one person per day that I worked.  I asked what if I haven't encountered someone worth locking up, and they said that was part of the job.  I can't say that I was completely principled, in that the salary was about 20k less, so I already knew I wouldn't be accepting the job, but I used  that as the opportunity to get up and walk out.  I then never went to the last interview for the second department.  So, it comes as no surprise that this douchebag made that much.  And was a corrupt motherfucker.

[doobie]

Does that mean he'll get his retirement benefits and pensions still?

[Pat McCotter]

Edison patrolman admits shoplifting while in uniform at supermarket
By KEN SERRANO
August 11, 2009

MIDDLESEX COUNTY — An Edison police officer with 29 years on the job admitted in court Monday that he shoplifted $42 worth of items in March from a supermarket in the township where he was working in uniform on an off-duty security detail.
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David Yanvary, 55, pleaded guilty in Superior Court, New Brunswick before Judge Frederick DeVesa to one count of shoplifting, a disorderly persons offense.

Among the items he admitted to stealing from ShopRite on March 17 was the DVD "Role Models,'' a comedy about energy drink salesmen who, after a brush with the law, perform community service by working with teenagers instead of doing prison time.

Yanvary does not face jail time. But under the plea deal struck with the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, he will forfeit his $113,000-a-year job as an Edison patrolman and will not be allowed to hold public employment again.

Prosecutors said he also stole a bottle of ShopRite canola oil, a fragrant candle and a container of Golden Blossom honey, mixed in with other goods that he purchased.

Manuel Sameiro, assistant Middlesex County prosecutor, said Yanvary was captured by surveillance video taking the items. A security manager confronted him outside the store, Sameiro said. A complaint was signed against him on March 31.

Yanvary pleaded guilty prior to the case going to a grand jury.

His attorney, Timothy Smith of South Orange, complained that the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office pressured Yanvary into taking the plea deal by threatening to charge him with official misconduct. A conviction of official misconduct would have resulted in mandatory prison time.

"I think the threat of official misconduct was over the top,'' Smith said, contending that Yanvary was being paid by the supermarket, not the police department.

During the brief court hearing, the point was in dispute. Yanvary was hired through the Edison Police Department to work the detail. He was wearing his patrolman's uniform at the time of the theft.

Following the charge in March, Smith said Yanvary was the victim of a vindictive manager.

Today, he said he could not discuss what may have been in Yanvary's mind when he walked out of the store.

He added that ShopRite did not want the matter prosecuted.

Yanvary has been suspended without pay for the past four months. He put his retirement papers in on March 19, two days after the incident, officials said.

Tom Vincz, spokesman for the state Department of Treasury, said "conduct while serving in an active status'' is taken into account by the pension board on a case-by-case basis. The fact that Yanvary filed his papers before being charged is immaterial, Vincz said.