A New Jersey police lieutenant swiped cocaine and fentanyl from the county prosecutor’s evidence room — then tried to return the drugs in “substantially different” condition after higher-ups began asking questions about what he was doing, state authorities alleged Tuesday.
Kevin T. Matthew, 47, of Cedar Grove, also allegedly made a “series of cash deposits” at several banks on different days to avoid the financial institutions’ federal requirement to report transactions of more than $10,000, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
Two razor blades were found in his office at the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and later tested positive for cocaine, state prosecutors alleged.
Although authorities didn’t say exactly what they thought the cop was doing with the drugs, they wrote in the criminal complaint that his actions were “taken with the purpose to benefit himself by personal use, personal financial profit or concealing his misconduct.”
