THE DIRTY ITALIAN POLICE OFFICERS OF NEW JERSEY ARE THE WORST OF THE WORST
Sunday, August 19, 2018 01:54PM
HACKENSACK, New Jersey (WABC) --
A police chief with the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police department has resigned after he was arrested on drug charges.
This arrest happened in early August when Michael J. Coppola was accused of buying cocaine and shipping it to his post office box.
Detectives placed a package containing imitation cocaine in his box, and after Coppola retrieved the package, believing it contained cocaine, he was arrested during a motor vehicle stop in Ridgefield Park.
Coppola is charged with attempting to possess cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. He's scheduled to make a court appearance Wednesday.
The 43-year-old was already under suspension for 90 days for allegedly offering financial incentives to his officers to write out more tickets.
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New Jersey police chief allegedly gave incentives to officers who wrote more tickets
Friday, July 13, 2018
ALPINE, New Jersey (WABC) -- A New Jersey police chief has been suspended after it was discovered he allegedly offered incentives to officers who wrote more tickets and made more arrests.
Chief Michael Coppola of the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department has been suspended for 90 days while officials oversee critical changes to the department, the Bergen County Prosecutors Office said Thursday.
A probe uncovered a program that gave awards and incentives to officers with the highest summons and arrest activity each month.
Investigators say those officers received favorable parking spaces, newer police vehicles and a meal allowance of $200.
Some of the tickets involved dangerous high speed chases, including one that ended in death.
Investigators reviewing police pursuits between January 2014 to August 2017 found officers violated pursuit guidelines in 36 of 41 cases.
In 23 of 36 pursuits, police speeds exceeded 100 mph. In 13 cases, police speeds exceeded 120 mph.
Investigators also found the chief owned a company which provided IT services to the department.
While they say he did not charge for or directly profit from services, investigators cited conflict of interest violations.
The Palisades Interstate Park Commission has not commented on the prosecutor's findings.
Perhaps this corrupt cop is related to Michael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola, the notorious mobster.
Michael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola on trial 2009
Michael J. Coppola (born in May 18, 1946), also known as "Mikey Cigars", is an American mobster in the Genovese crime family. It is unknown if he is related to Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola, who was also a member of the Genovese crime family. He has been a key figure in the Genovese crime family New Jersey faction. He made national headlines when he went on the lam for 11 years to avoid a possible murder conviction.
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PASSAIC COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICER LUCAS LIED DURING HIS GRAND JURY TESTIMONY WHEN HE
CLAIMED THAT HE INJURED HIS LEFT SHOULDER DURING A FALL AT A PROPERTY ON JUNE
28, 2011
Lying
Lucas is #41
As part of an investigation
we have been performing, we discovered that Ronald A. Lucas, a former Passaic
County sheriff officer with the Civil Division lied about his on-the-job
shoulder injury. Lucas claimed that he fell
on the job on June 28, 2011 at 687 Indian Road, Wayne, NJ and that he injured
his left shoulder requiring several pins.
He then filed a disability claim with the New Jersey Division of
Pensions and Benefits (Police and Firemen Retirement System). He was granted disability for one year with
subsequent review. After he retired with
claimed disability, he obtained a job as part-time security guard at the
Pequannock High School.
Bombshell
evidence contradicting Lying Lucas’ injury claims: We have obtained a report by Lt. Nick Mango
who stated that nobody was injured at the scene. The report by Lucas also states that he
stumbled and not fell.
We discovered that Mr. Lucas
suffered shoulder injuries while playing football and lifting heavy weights
over his lifetime. He was a linebacker
with the Pompton Lakes Cardinals (he played at position #41), using his
shoulder to hit and tackle his opponents during practice and during football
games. He also lifted very heavy weights
to do body building. Lucas has fallen on
his shoulder probably thousand times during his athletic and training career.
Everybody knows that
linebackers hit and tackle their opponents using their shoulders. These athletes also lift heavy weights and
they end-up injuries their shoulders. He (Lucas) even made the All County Team in
1980, showing how hard he was working out.
Based on our investigation, we found that weight lifting athletes do
suffer shoulder injuries of the type claimed by Lucas.
He also trained his two sons
(Dean Lucas and Ronnie Lucas) into playing TE and DE positions also with the
Cardinals football team. In fact,
linebackers suffer at least 13.5 percent of all football injuries and at least
65 percent of the linebackers end up undergoing surgery.
Lt.
Nick Mango wrote in his June 28, 2011 report that “nobody was hurt”. Also,
Lucas never wrote in his June 28, 2018 report that he was injured. He specifically wrote: “As I
entered the woods I stumbled”. He
never wrote that he was injured.
However, during this grand jury testimony, he provided a diametrically
different picture:
Lucas
claimed that he fell on his elbow and shoulder, but was able to regain his
balance, and he ran into a wooded area to seek cover behind a large boulder. Lucas claimed that he tore his biceps and had
surgery on his shoulder, and “ended up having a pretty severe injury” in his
shoulder, requiring “five pins.” Of
course we now know that this guy was a football player and body builder and
suffered these injuries over his many years of lifting heavy weights and
hitting his opponents with his shoulder (he was a linebacker with the Pompton
Lakes Cardinals at #41). This guy then
defrauded the Police and Firemen Retirement Fund by claiming disability and
started the double dipping.
So,
from flip-flopping regarding the color of the gun; to whether the door was
closed or open; to whether he knocked the door or not; to whether he suffered a
major injury or not, Lying Lucas has some serious credibility issues; and all
his lies were allowed to poison the grand jury deliberations.
We have obtained photos
showing Mr. Lucas lifting weights, after his alleged job-ending
disability. See for example the attached
image that is dated December 2013.
It is obvious to a
reasonable and objective person that Lucas (in his mid-50s) took this incident
on June 28, 2011 to claim on-the job-injury to be able to repair his previously
injured shoulder at taxpayers’ expense and to retire and then blame Basilis
Stephanatos for his injuries. After he
retired, he started the double dipping.
The finest of New Jersey at "work".