Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Antolin Bretton

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 10 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a)(6) a Public Employee. (a)(12) . D7: Violation of Administrative rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or Administrative decision. E1: Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order, or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

The Department of Corrections suspended Senior Correctional Police Officer Antolin Bretton for 10 days in 2024. On February 5, 2024, Bretton called a code for an incarcerated person displaying self-injurious behavior. When medical staff arrived, Bretton called for the cell door to be opened, stepped aside, and ordered staff to cut the bed sheets tied around the person's neck, but he did not render aid at any point. Bretton signed a settlement agreement on March 14, 2024.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On February 5, 2024 Officer Bretton called a code for an Incarcerated Person displaying self injurious behaviors. When medical arrived on the scene, Officer Bretton called over the radio for the cell door to be opened, once opened Officer Bretton did not render any aid to the Incarcerated Person, instead stepped aside for the medical staff and then Officer Bretton ordered medical staff to cut the bed sheets tied around the Incarcerated Person's neck. There was never a moment where Officer Bretton rendered any aid to the Incarcerated Person. Officer Bretton signed a settlement agreement on this matter on March 14, 2024.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $68,217
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 8 years

How to read this

The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1335. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213086, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩