Court overturns conviction of former N.J. cop in police overtime theft case
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
A former Plainfield police officer who forfeited her position as part of a guilty plea in a departmental theft case has won an appeal that throws out her conviction and sends the matter back to the trial court.
A state appeals court found the way Leslie Knight’s case ended in a guilty plea had factual problems.
Knight was a sergeant in 2014 when she and another officer, then Lt. James Abney, were indicted on several dozen crimes accusing them of falsifying time sheets and police records to generate extra pay themselves for overtime or extra duty shifts they did not work.
The Supreme Court of Ohio heard the case on Wednesday. Author: Kevin Landers Updated: 9:25 AM EDT April 29, 2021
MARYSVILLE, Ohio Union County homeowners west of Marysville say they’re tired of seeing trains sit idle at intersections, sometimes for longer than an hour, preventing them from getting to where they need to be.
“It s a big inconvenience when you live 10 minutes from town and it takes you a half-hour to get there or longer, said one homeowner, who did not want to share his name.
But it’s more than time wasted in the car that has people like him frustrated.
32-year-old man fatally shot in N.J. city, police say
Updated Apr 27, 2021;
A 32-year-old man was fatally shot Monday in Elizabeth, according to a joint statement from the Elizabeth Police Department and the Union County Prosecutor’s Office.
The agencies were investigating the shooting Tuesday. No arrests were made and no suspects were named as of 5 p.m., authorities said.
Officers were called to the intersection of Second and Bond streets in the city’s Elizabethport section early Monday afternoon and found Elizabeth resident Antwoine Thompson shot, police said.
Thompson was rushed to Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, where he was pronounced dead shortly before 3 p.m., the office said.
MyCentralJersey.com
PLAINFIELD – A former city police officer has won her appeal allowing her to withdraw her guilty plea in connection with a charge that she overbilled Plainfield for overtime.
Leslie Knight, who was a sergeant in the police department, forfeited her job because of her plea to a downgraded disorderly conduct charge. She was also ordered to pay $1,530 in restitution.
Knight had been charged in September 2014 with overbilling the city for more than 30 overtime and extra-duty shifts, netting her more than $6,800 in 2012 and 2013.
She was indicted on four counts of official misconduct, three counts of third-degree theft by deception, 12 counts of fourth-degree theft by deception and single counts of tampering with public records, falsifying records, computer theft and conspiracy.
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