TRENTON, N.J. — An Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant from Sussex County has been charged with theft after allegedly taking a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journalist was being treated at a hospital following a protest at Newark’s Delaney Hall, authorities said.
Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability announced that Sgt. Darryl Brown, 43, of Sparta Township, has been charged by complaint summons with third-degree theft.
The charge stems from an investigation into the disappearance of camera equipment belonging to a photojournalist who was covering a protest at Delaney Hall on May 30…