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For Immediate Release:  
For Further Information:
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September 13, 2006  
Peter Aseltine
609-292-4791

Office of The Attorney General
- Anne Milgram, Acting Attorney General
Division of Criminal Justice
- Gregory A. Paw, Director

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Former Newark Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Narcotics and Official Misconduct Charges

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NEWARK – Acting Attorney General Anne Milgram and Division of Criminal Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced that a former Newark police officer has pleaded guilty to charges that she sold cocaine out of her house in Newark and hindered law enforcement efforts to arrest her boyfriend, who also was dealing narcotics.

Brandy Johnson, 30, who was a Newark police officer from 1999 until her arrest in July 2004, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon before Superior Court Judge Joseph V. Isabella in Essex County to two counts of second-degree official misconduct and one count of second-degree distribution of cocaine. Those charges were contained in two separate state grand jury indictments obtained by the Division of Criminal Justice.

Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that Johnson receive a sentence of seven years in state prison. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 5, 2007 before Judge Isabella.

"This defendant took an oath to protect the public as a Newark police officer, and instead she endangered the community by dealing narcotics," said Acting Attorney General Milgram. "We will continue to work with the Newark Police Department to root out corruption in the force and vigorously prosecute those who violate the law and the public trust."

Johnson was charged as the result of a joint investigation by the Division of Criminal Justice and the Newark Police Department.

During the plea hearing, Johnson admitted that on April 20, 2004, she sold approximately 11 grams of cocaine for $400 to an undercover state investigator from her house on Tuxedo Parkway in Newark. Johnson also admitted to being an accomplice in a second drug sale made by her boyfriend, Khalid Onion, 32, of Newark.

Onion sold about 29 grams of cocaine for $1,200 to an undercover investigator on April 28, 2004 near the corner of Baldwin and Clinton Avenues in Newark. That drug deal was the basis for Johnson’s guilty pleas to the distribution charge and one of the counts of official misconduct.

The second official misconduct charge stems from Johnson’s conduct after her arrest, when she lied to investigators about the whereabouts of Onion and hid him in her house. Investigators searched Johnson’s house on Aug. 29, 2004 and found Onion in the attic. Johnson also was indicted on charges related to her attempt to negotiate the illegal sale of a handgun to an undercover officer.

Onion pleaded guilty on May 22, 2005 to charges of distributing cocaine and conspiracy, both in the second degree. The state will recommend a six-year state prison term at his sentencing, which is scheduled for Oct. 13.

Deputy Attorney General Marysol Rosero prosecuted the case for the Division of Criminal Justice. The Division’s investigation was led by State Investigator Christian Harden with assistance from State Investigators Cecil Boone and Thomas Page and other state investigators from the Major Crimes Bureau, Narcotics North Unit.

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