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TRENTON
– Attorney General Anne Milgram announced
that a corrections officer at Southern State
Correctional Facility in Cumberland County
was sentenced to state prison today for smuggling
narcotics and a hypodermic needle to an inmate.
According
to Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni,
Roy Solomon, 33, of Lower Township, was sentenced
to five years in state prison by Superior
Court Judge Benjamin C. Telsey in Cumberland
County. Solomon pleaded guilty on Aug. 31
to an accusation charging him with second-degree
official misconduct.
Solomon
was required to forfeit his position as a
corrections officer at the time of the plea
and will be permanently barred from public
employment in New Jersey. Deputy Attorney
General Pearl Minato prosecuted the case for
the Division of Criminal Justice Corruption
Bureau and represented the state at the sentencing.
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.
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 was suspended without pay commencing in
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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