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BY JOHN SNYDER
OF PASCACK PRESS
MONTVALE, N.J.—Police Detective David Ten Broeck is off the duty roster and scheduled to answer in court July 11 over two complaints: possession of a controlled dangerous substance (cocaine) and possession of narcotics paraphernalia.
According to his arrest report, after Ten Broeck failed to show up for work on May 13 Capt. Joseph Sanfilippo called the police in Cranford in Union County, where Ten Broeck lives, and requested they check on him.
Units responded and investigated. Cranford Police Sgt. and shift supervisor Steven Toy, in full uniform, arrested Ten Broeck, 36, for suspected cocaine and paraphernalia at his home.
Ten Broeck was processed and released pending a Superior Court appearance May 30, after which he was released on his own recognizance, court records show.
The complaint summons, State of New Jersey vs. David A. Ten Broeck, shows the possession of a controlled dangerous substance accusation as a third-degree crime. The possession of drug paraphernalia accusation is a disorderly persons offense, the summons shows.
Montvale Police Chief Jeremy Abrams told Pascack Press June 13 he is aware of his detective’s arrest and “is taking the appropriate action necessary in light of those events. The issue in Montvale is a personnel matter, and we have no further comment at this time.”
Herminio Amado, president of the Montvale chapter of the Policemen’s Benevolent Association, told Pascack Press June 14, “I am not at liberty to disclose any information on [Detective] Ten Broeck’s investigation. I am aware that Chief Abrams has already made a press release on this incident. The PBA does not have a comment at this time.”
According to a spokesperson for the Union County Prosecutor’s Office, the case “is still pre-arraignment and pre-indictment,” and Ten Broeck is to appear back in court July 11.
The spokesperson said Ten Broeck’s attorney is David J. Altieri of Hackensack, whose office said June 13 that he was unavailable to speak on his client’s behalf.
A spokeswoman for the New Jersey Courts said an affidavit of probable cause is blank “because it wasn’t completed by the police department.”
Ten Broeck said on LinkedIn he was an auxiliary police sergeant with Cranford from 2005 to 2011, started with the Montvale Police Department as a police officer that year, and moved to the Detective Bureau in October 2017.
He’s been an adjunct professor of criminal justice at Bergen County College since 2013 and is a lawyer with the Law Office of Michael Kaplonski in Garwood.
His law degree is from Rutgers Law School, from which he has an undergraduate degree in economics.
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Police report redacted
Pascack Press was tipped to this story over email. There were two Cranford police blotter items online purporting resident Ten Broeck’s arrest; Pascack Press began its reporting by requesting the arrest report from the Cranford Police Department.
The narrative in the report was redacted except for one line, establishing that another resident of the home was out of state at the time of the arrest but had checked in and was in good health.
According to a Cranford police spokesman, the withheld parts had to do with basic privacy, criminal investigatory records, “medical, psychiatric or psychological history, diagnosis, treatment, or evaluation,” and other exemptions.