Three Essex County Sheriff’s Officers — including one from Kearny and one from Belleville — have been suspended from duty after being charged with stealing items from the scene of an arrest warrant they executed in East Orange early this year, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Essex County Sheriff Amir Jones announced said.
The three were charged with theft following an investigation into the unauthorized removal of items during the execution of a narcotics search warrant Jan. 10, 2023, at the apartment of Kirk Mansook, of East Orange.
According to Stephens:
At the time, Officers Jimmy Rodriguez, 39, of Kearny; Fabian Caicedo, 45, of East Rutherford and Erik Udvarhely , 44, of Belleville, were assigned to the Sheriff’s Office Bureau of Narcotics…