A day or two after that raid, Fitzsimmons and the police department were asked to provide the borough with a list of detectives who take home municipal-owned cars, the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit also mentions Fitzsimmons and the detective bureau’s investigation into a municipal court clerk with family ties to the Middlesex County Democratic Organization and the Sayreville Democratic Organization, who was charged last year with stealing money from court operations. The lawsuit alleges Pollando and other Democrats pushed for that court clerk to be hired.
In late July 2022, then-Police Chief John Zebrowski announced to Plumacker, the current chief, and Capt. Patrick Kiernan that he would be retiring Sept. 1, 2022, and that the acting chief position should go to the senior captain until Civil Service administers a test, according to the lawsuit. Plumacker met with Fitzsimmons a few days later and said he was shocked by Zebrowski’s retirement announcement and indicated that the borough did not want to give a test for the chief’s position, the lawsuit says.
