In 2023, Officer Anthony Cosma separated from the Guttenberg Police Department while an internal affairs matter was pending. The agency received several complaints that Cosma had borrowed large sums of money from multiple people and failed to pay it back. Cosma was charged with theft by deception for an amount in excess of $500, a third-degree crime. He entered a pretrial intervention program and forfeited his position as a police officer. An indictable offense charge was sustained.
Several complaints were received alleging that Anthony Cosma had borrowed large sums of money from multiple people and failed to pay it back. Cosma was eventually charged with Theft By Deception for an amount in excess of $500, making it a third-degree crime. Anthony Cosma entered into a Pretrial Intervention program and subsequently forfeited his position as a Police Officer with the Guttenberg Police Department.
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What is a summary of Anthony Cosma's major discipline record?
In 2023, Officer Anthony Cosma separated from the Guttenberg Police Department while an internal affairs matter was pending. The agency received several complaints that Cosma had borrowed large sums of money from multiple people and failed to pay it back. Cosma was charged with theft by deception for an amount in excess of $500, a third-degree crime. He entered a pretrial intervention program and forfeited his position as a police officer. An indictable offense charge was sustained.
What is Anthony Cosma's major discipline record at Guttenberg Police Department?
Anthony Cosma has one major discipline record at Guttenberg Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Guttenberg Police Department, the department Anthony Cosma worked for?
Guttenberg Police Department reported 28 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Anthony Cosma individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1709. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8340. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩