Edison NJ police detective is charged with shoplifting from local supermarket?

Sanju

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/edison_police_detective_charge.html

Edison police detective is charged with shoplifting from local supermarket
by Tom Haydon/The Star-Ledger
Wednesday April 01, 2009, 8:15 PM

An Edison police detective with 22 years on the force faces a charge of shoplifting from a township supermarket, but his lawyer called the allegation baseless.

David Yanvary, 54, is accused of taking $42 worth of items from a store on March 17, Edison Police Director Bryan Collier confirmed today.
Chris Faytok/The Star-LedgerEdison police officer David Yanvary walks out of police headquarters in Edison today. Yanvary, a 22 year veteran on the force, is accused of shoplifting at a local supermarket. 4:12:34 PM

"This department has drawn a line in the sand. Misconduct of any kind will not be tolerated. The tax-paying public and the men and woman of this police department deserve no less," Collier said.

He declined to comment further on the charges.

Yanvary, who worked for the township nearly eight years before joining the police force for a total of more than 29 years of service, has filed for retirement.

Timothy Smith, a South Orange lawyer representing Yanvary, said his client filed for retirement more than a week ago.

"He wasn't serve with the charge until late yesterday. It's totally unrelated. One has nothing to do with the other," Smith said. He called shoplifting charge "baseless" and said "we're very confident he will be totally vindicated," Smith said.

He claimed the charge was filed by a vindictive supermarket manager. Yanvary had receipts for the merchandise, Smith said.

When Mayor June Choi took office in 2006, he called for stronger leadership, accountability and discipline to the force, which suffered a string of embarrassing incidents involving its officers in the past.

Last year, in a shake-up of the department, Choi tapped Collier, a former federal drug enforcement agent, to be township police director.

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So what is your question? This news article is from April 1 - April Fools Day! But I don't think it's a joke...actually it's a shameful way for a police officer to go out. I hope he really does have receipts and is found innocent of the charges - after all, it took a couple weeks for the grocery store manager to come forward with the charges.

By the way, in my area (Ohio), the Olmsted Township Police Chief had to resign from his job last Friday after getting caught in a park with another man and is facing sex charges. And the Olmsted Falls high school band director was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison today for having sex with one of his students. Both of these are worse than possible shoplifting. But why wouldn't a police officer have enough money to pay for his groceries?

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