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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The body of missing Drew University student Ajay Sah, 22, was found in the Anchorage Channel in Brooklyn, said the Morris County Prosecutor s Office.
The New York Police Department found the body on March 9, but was unable to confirm the identity. The department contacted the Morris County Prosecutor s office last week and confirmed Sah s identity.
Sah, a junior, was last seen taking a train into New York City on Jan.19 at around 11 p.m.
“The Morris County Prosecutor’s Office extends its condolences to the Sah family for their loss, said Acting Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll. The circumstances of this disappearance were challenging, however, were investigated thoroughly by the MCPO, Madison Police Department and its law enforcement partners.
UpdatedMon, May 3, 2021 at 6:30 pm ET
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Drew University junior Ajay Sah went missing in January. Authorities announced Monday they discovered his body. (Courtesy of Drew University)
MADISON, NJ Authorities discovered the body of a Drew University student who went missing in January. The Morris County Prosecutor s Office confirmed Monday that Ajay Sah s body had been discovered in Brooklyn s Anchorage Channel.
The prosecutor s office does not consider his death suspicious, a spokesperson told Patch.
Sah, 22, was last seen on campus Jan. 19 and reported missing three days later. Investigation revealed that the international student from Nepal boarded an NJ Transit train to New York Penn Station. Surveillance footage revealed in March showed Sah holding a camera on the Brooklyn Bridge.
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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.