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| N.J. Officer Admits Role in Theft Scam, Supplying Drugs to Inmate |
| By The Jersey Journal |
| Published: 03/17/2003 |
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A Hudson County, N.J., corrections officer admitted yesterday that he was involved in an elaborate credit card scheme from the Kearny jail, and that he supplied drugs to an inmate who overdosed. Wesley Hailey, 36, pleaded guilty to a second-degree charge of official misconduct before state Superior Court Judge Elaine L. Davis last week, officials said. Assistant Hudson County Prosecutor Salvatore Rozzi said Hailey, a four-year veteran of the department, faces a maximum of seven years in state prison when he is sentenced in May. Davis also signed an order yesterday prohibiting Hailey from working as a state employee. Hailey was arrested in October, seven months after inmate Patrick Demedici was found dead in his cell of a drug overdose. Detectives from the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office searched Demedici's cell and, in addition to cocaine, heroin and marijuana, found several handwritten notes that linked Demedici to Hailey - and an identity theft scam in which more than $300,000 worth of goods was ordered from the jail, said Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio. The detectives working the case discovered Hailey, who had worked on Demedici's cellblock, had allegedly provided the inmate with several cellular phones that were used to call the victims, DeFazio said. During the phone calls, Demedici would persuade the victims to reveal individual identifiers, which he would later use to create fraudulent credit cards in their names, DeFazio said. The accounts were set up with addresses in Hudson County towns and other states, DeFazio said. Demedici would then order computers and other electronic equipment and have them shipped - and billed - to those addresses, but the bills were never paid. The goods were then either used by Hailey or other people he gave them to, or were sold to black-market dealers, DeFazio said. |
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