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TRENTON – Attorney General
Anne Milgram announced that a corrections
officer at Southern State Correctional Facility
in Cumberland County pleaded guilty today
to smuggling narcotics and a hypodermic needle
to an inmate.
According to Criminal Justice
Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni, Roy Solomon,
33, of Lower Township, pleaded guilty to an
accusation charging him with second-degree
official misconduct before Superior Court
Judge Benjamin C. Telsey in Cumberland County.
Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend
that he be sentenced to five years in state
prison.
Solomon was required to forfeit
his position as a corrections officer and
will be permanently barred from public employment
in New Jersey. Deputy Attorney General Pearl
Minato took the guilty plea for the Division
of Criminal Justice Corruption Bureau.
In pleading guilty, Solomon
admitted that while employed as a corrections
officer at Southern State Correctional Facility
in 2008, he smuggled cocaine and a hypodermic
needle to an inmate in the prison.
Judge Telsey scheduled sentencing
for Solomon for Nov. 13.
The charges resulted from
an investigation by the State Police Organized
Crime Bureau South and the Department of Corrections
Special Investigations Division.
Solomon was hired as a corrections
officer at Southern State Correctional Facility
in March 2001. He has been suspended without
pay since April 2009 as a result of the investigation.
The investigation was led
for the State Police Organized Crime Bureau
South by Detective David Caracciolo, Detective
Vincent Coppola and Detective Sgt. 1st Class
John Redkoles. It was led for the Department
of Corrections Special Investigations Divison
by Investigator Ed Soltys.
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