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SADDLE BROOK, NJ The New Jersey Attorney General announced charges against Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler, who ordered on-duty officers to perform police escorts for his private business, the AG s Office said.
Kugler is charged with conspiracy, official misconduct and corruption of public resources for ordering those officers to use police department vehicles to perform police escorts for funerals at Kugler Funeral Home, which he owns, the AG s Office said.
The Bergen County Prosecutor s Office has taken over day-to-day operations at the department, and Kugler has been suspended. Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti will be in command of the department under the authority of Prosecutor Mark Musella, the Prosecutor s Office announced.
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TRAGIC ENDING: With so much snow falling on New Jersey in recent weeks, the fear was that a Wyckoff man who went missing during a late January mega-storm was buried somewhere and wouldn t be found until it melted.
Those fears came true Monday, when the body of 40-year-old Andrew R. Fraioli was found across the street from his parents’ home.
No foul play was suspected, Wyckoff Police Lt. Joseph Soto said Monday afternoon.
Fraioli, who worked as a drug counselor in Camden and had no special needs, came north five weeks ago from his Lindenwold home to help his 74-year-old dad dig out from the then-impending blizzard.
SADDLE BROOK, New Jersey (WABC) A police chief in New Jersey is facing a string of criminal charges accusing him of alleged misconduct over police escorts.
Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler was charged on Monday with conspiracy in the second degree, official misconduct in the second degree and corruption of public resources in the third degree.
Investigators say Kugler allegedly ordered on-duty police officers to act as police escorts for his private funeral home business between January 2019 and August 2020.
They say the 59-year-old used official police vehicles to escort funeral processions to cemeteries both within and outside of Saddle Brook.
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