TRENTON – Attorney General Anne Milgram announced that a corrections officer at Southern State Correctional Facility in Cumberland County pleaded guilty on Monday, Aug 31, to smuggling narcotics and a hypodermic needle to an inmate.
According to Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni, Roy Solomon, 33, of Lower Township, pleaded guilty to an accusation charging him with second-degree official misconduct before Superior Court Judge Benjamin C. Telsey in Cumberland County. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that he be sentenced to five years in state prison.
Solomon was required to forfeit his position as a corrections officer and will be permanently barred from public employment in New Jersey. Deputy Attorney General Pearl Minato took the guilty plea for the Division of Criminal Justice Corruption Bureau.
In pleading guilty, Solomon admitted that while employed as a corrections officer at Southern State Correctional Facility in 2008, he smuggled cocaine and a hypodermic needle to an inmate in the prison.
Judge Telsey scheduled sentencing for Solomon for Nov. 13.
The charges resulted from an investigation by the State Police Organized Crime Bureau South and the Department of Corrections Special Investigations Division.
Solomon was hired as a corrections officer at Southern State Correctional Facility in March 2001. He has been suspended without pay since April 2009 as a result of the investigation.
The investigation was led for the State Police Organized Crime Bureau South by Detective David Caracciolo, Detective Vincent Coppola and Detective Sgt. 1st Class John Redkoles. It was led for the Department of Corrections Special Investigations Divison by Investigator Ed Soltys.
