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| Essex County Corrections Officer Charged For Taking Bribes, Smuggling Contraband Into Federal Pretrial Detention Facility |
| By patch.com - Carla Kilroy |
| Published: 11/14/2014 |
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An Essex County corrections officer was arrested today by special agents of the FBI for taking bribes to smuggle contraband, including cell phones and cigarettes, into the Essex County Jail, a federal pretrial detention facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. John Grosso, 41, of Belleville, New Jersey, was arrested this morning at the Essex County Jail. He is charged by complaint with one count of conspiring to commit extortion under color of official right, in violation of the Hobbs Act. He appeared this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy L. Waldor in Newark federal court and was released on $100,000 bail. According to the complaint: On multiple occasions between November 2013 and December 2013, Grosso, a corrections officer at the Essex County Jail, accepted cash bribes of approximately $1,000 in return for smuggling cell phones and cigarettes to an inmate. Grosso usually met with the inmate’s associate in the parking lot of the Best Buy store in Secaucus, New Jersey, to accept the contraband packages and cash bribes, before delivering the packages to the inmate. Read More. |
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