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Jaime Chaverra-Bonilla
September 28, 2004 · Dover, Morris County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Jaime Chaverra-Bonilla
- Age as recorded
- 36
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Hispanic/Latino
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- September 28, 2004
- Location as recorded
- Dover, Morris County40 Fred Terrace Dover NJ 07801 Morris
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Drug overdose
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Dover Police Department
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The source's account
Fatal Encounters' description of the incident, verbatim. This is the source project's own third-party narrative, not this site's reporting.
Police got a call at 12:51 a.m. saying Chaverra-Bonilla was streaking outside his home. Several neighbors said he had been drinking and behaving strangely in the hours before police were called. When Dover officers Anthony Smith, Michael Thiel and Timothy Thiel arrived, Chaverra-Bonilla was running around naked in front of the residence, sweating profusely. Chaverra-Bonilla struggled to get away as the officers tried to handcuff him. When they got his hands cuffed behind his back, "he immediately went limp," and died, police said.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RcB3aL4VCMKL4tW5YQFqJVr7b5Foq2-IrAs78HgL1UA/edit?usp=sharing (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 31 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2004, and one of 14 it holds for Morris County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Gregory A. Alli (2004) October 11, 2004
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Jaime Chaverra-Bonilla died on September 28, 2004 in Dover, Morris County, with "Drug overdose" as the highest level of force. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset of deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind; a record is not a finding of fault or misconduct.
Which agency or agencies were recorded as involved?
The record's agency field reads "Dover Police Department". Presence in that field means the agency appears in the record as reported, nothing more; it is not a claim of fault or responsibility by any officer or agency.
Where did this happen?
The record places the death in Dover, Morris County, on September 28, 2004. The address as recorded is 40 Fred Terrace Dover NJ 07801 Morris.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 26900. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩