The alleged victim has her own history with alcohol abuse, and Schweizer once obtained a restraining order against her several years ago, Palazzo said. Most telling in the restraining order is that the alleged victim indicated if he slept in the living room, she would call the police and falsely accuse him of rape, Palazzo said. So she already has the basis to make a false accusation.
Palazzo said the woman declined to give police a written statement at the scene of the alleged rape on April 21. When she was brought to the local hospital, she was so intoxicated she declined medical treatment and threw bodily fluids at the staff, he said.
Man who had sexual assault charges controversially dropped jailed on new charges
Updated May 04, 2021;
The son of a former county official, who in 2017 was charged with sexual assault in a case that sparked a feud between State Police and local prosecutors, will remain jailed as new sexual assault charges against him are pending.
Ian Schweizer, 38, will remain jailed in the Keogh-Dwyer Correctional Institute in Sussex County following a Tuesday morning hearing. He is charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of aggravated assault, and simple assault stemming from an April 21 incident in Sandyston.
Although he is being held in Sussex County, Schweizer is being charged by the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office.
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It just got harder for the Democrats who control Bergen and Hudson counties to hold onto their ICE contracts at local jails.
Essex County announced yesterday that now that it has an agreement with Union County to house its inmates, it’s going to end its contract with the federal immigration enforcement agency. The last ICE inmates will leave by the end of August.
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State police charged Ian Schweizer, 38, with simple assault after the alleged April 21 incident, but at a virtual court hearing on Tuesday, a prosecutor said Schweizer would also face four additional counts of sexual and aggravated assault. A hearing to determine whether he will stay in jail while the case is heard, originally scheduled for Thursday, was postponed until next week.
The incident comes a month after the state Attorney General s Office issued a report concluding there was a breakdown in communication between state police and the Sussex prosecutors over the 2017 allegations, but no signs of improper or corrupt influence. Some troopers from the Sussex barracks had claimed Schweizer s family connections had played a role in the dismissal of the charges.
Man who had sexual assault charges controversially dropped faces new sex assault charges
Updated Apr 28, 2021;
The son of a former county official, who in 2017 was charged with sexual assault in a case that sparked a feud between State Police and local prosecutors, now faces sexual assault charges stemming from an April incident, officials said.
Ian Schweizer, 38, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of aggravated assault stemming from an incident inside a Sandyston home on April 21, a spokeswoman for the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office said. He was previously charged with simple assault.
A scheduled detention hearing for the simple assault charge on Tuesday was postponed until Thursday so all charges could be heard at the same time, Schweizer’s lawyer said during a Zoom call.