Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A judge agrees the 4th District state assemblyman was stopped unconstitutionally by a police officer who is now charged with official misconduct.
Calling it “fruit of the poisonous tree,” Gloucester County prosecutors dismissed drunken-driving charges against state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty Tuesday. Moriarty, a 4th District Democrat, had fought allegations he was driving drunk from the moment of his July 31, 2012, arrest. Moriarty immediately maintained he had not been drinking and that the arresting officer, Washington Township Patrolman Joseph DiBuonaventura, abused his power. The tables eventually turned on DiBuonaventura, who was suspended from the force and recently indicted on a slew of charges, including official misconduct, stemming from the arrest. On Tuesday, Superior Court Judge M. Christine Allen-Jackson dismissed the charges against Moriarty following a motion by the …
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Officer Joseph DiBuonaventura was formally charged with official misconduct and related offenses in connection with a drunken-driving arrest of state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty.
The police officer who arrested state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty on a drunken-driving charge last year may himself end up in prison. A Gloucester County grand jury on Wednesday indicted Washington Township Ptl. Joseph DiBuonaventura on an array of charges related to the arrest on July 31, 2012. DiBuonaventura, 42, of Brigantine, was charged with five second-degree counts of official misconduct; three fourth-degree counts of false swearing; three third degree counts of tampering with records; and three fourth-degree counts of falsifying records, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office announced Thursday. DiBuonaventura faces five to 10 years in state prison on each of the official misconduct charges, the most serious of his offenses. …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Patch receives videos it requested in July from Washington Township Police Department after a successful legal action.
Washington Township last week released to Patch Media Corp. police dashboard-camera videos that include the July 31, 2012, arrest of state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty on drunken-driving charges. The Gloucester County municipality also released documents that reveal it was a call from a Washington Township police officer's cousin to the officer's personal cell phone that apparently set in motion the events that led to Moriarty's arrest. Police documents also show the officer's relative indicated during a follow-up interview conducted nearly two months after Moriarty's arrest that he could not recall telling his cousin the assemblyman appeared to be drunk when he saw him. Washington Township Police Det. Martin Calvello received information …
Friday, October 19, 2012
The state legislator and his attorney held a press conference Friday to release video from his arrest in July, NBC-10 Philadelphia reported.
State Assemblyman Paul Moriarty and his attorney on Friday released video of his July 31 arrest on drunken-driving charges, claiming the video proves the arresting officer acted improperly, NBC-10 Philadelphia reported. Earlier this week, Moriarty (D-Washington Township) filed criminal complaints against the officer, Joseph DiBuonaventura, alleging the officer committed perjury and official misconduct, filed false police reports, and falsified and tampered with public records. Moriarty was arrested after he was pulled over in Washington Township, Gloucester County, where he previously served as mayor. In addition to driving while intoxicated, Moriarty also was charged with refusal to submit to a breath test and failure to maintain a …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
State Assemblyman Paul Moriarty denies he was drinking alcohol before he was pulled over by police.
State Assemblyman Paul Moriarty will have to wait a little longer for the court case against him to proceed. Moriarty's hearing in Bridgeton Municipal Court, scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21, was postponed. The hearing is now scheduled for 10 a.m. Sept. 13. The four-term Democratic assemblyman faces charges of driving while intoxicated, refusal to submit to a breath test, and failing to maintain a lane. Moriarty, 55, was arrested following a traffic stop on the Black Horse Pike, in the Turnersville section of his hometown of Washington Township, Gloucester County, on July 31. The lawmaker has labeled Officer Joseph DiBuonaventura's decision to arrest him as an "abuse of power," and has denied having consumed any alcoholic …
D.M.
5:51 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013
It is essential that Eric Holder of the US Justice Department begin a massive Audit of the NJ Court System and an Investigation on all cases concerning Police and Political elected Official Misconduct, Machine Interference, Violations in Harassment, racial Profiling on various levels, Wire Tapping, hacking into personal computers, kickback contracts, Misuse of Municipal, state and Federal Funds, … more ›