A Weehawken police officer was suspended last year after a superior caught her in possession of prescription pills that belonged to a dead resident, the department’s annual major discipline report says.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
Weehawken Police Officer Vicky Remache was suspended for 79 days last year after an internal affairs investigation sustained a charge of a serious rule infraction related to possessing prescription pills from someone who was deceased.
“A Patrol Lieutenant discovered several bags in the trunk during a patrol vehicle inspection. One of the bags had no markings indicating its owner, so the Lieutenant opened the
bag to locate the owner,” the incident description says.
“When the Lieutenant opened the bag, they discovered an orange prescription bottle issued to a resident and a paystub with Officer Remache’s name. The Lieutenant knew that the resident had passed away a year prior. Further investigation revealed that Officer Remache had two prescription bottles belonging to the same resident in her work bag. Officer Remache did not complete any reports regarding taking possession of Rx bottles.”
The only other major discipline reported by the Weehawken PD in 2024 was for Police Officer Joshua Hernandez, who was suspended for 10 days for a serious rule infraction related to a crash.
“Officer Hernandez was involved in a Motor Vehicle Crash on October 14, 2023, at 19:58 hours while operating Mark Patrol Vehicle 208 at 4100 Park Ave and 41st Street. Officer
Hernandez responded with his vehicle’s emergency lights and sirens to 51st Street and Park Ave to back up an officer on a Parking complaint,” according to the incident description.
“The crash did not result in any injuries. However, patrol Vehicle 208 and the other civilian vehicle sustained damage.”
Hernandez was suspended for nine days in 2023 for using an excessive amount of sick time in a two-year period and was also the subject of a December 2020 lawsuit against the department for allegedly causing permanent injuries in a crash that occurred in 2019.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has mandated that all law enforcement agencies post their annual major discipline reports online by January 31st each year after the records became public for the first time in mid-2020.
Many still just submit to the AG’s office through an online portal and the state’s annual database has also not been updated with each department’s major discipline report yet.
HCV previously reported on the 2024 major police discipline reports for the Hoboken, Guttenberg, Bayonne, Kearny, and Secaucus Police Departments.
