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Newark Police Department · 1 record · 2025
Suspended 6 days2025 · as reported
While apprehending a suspect, Detective Young deliberately struck a cell phone out of an unidentified female civilian's hand. The civilian was recording the detective's actions from a distance that did not interfere with his duties. Newark PD sustained a charge of conduct and suspended Young for 6 days in 2025.
Major discipline · 2025[1]
Suspended 6 daysSynopsis as reported by the agency
Detective Young deliberately struck a cell phone out of an unidentified female civilian’s hand while apprehending a suspect. The female was recording the detective’s actions from a distance that did not interfere with his duties.
Dayvon Bailey · Newark Police Department · 2025
Suspended 6 daysSustained charge(s): Insubordination, Obedience to Orders and Conduct Unbecoming
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Luis Contreras · Newark Police Department · 2025
Suspended 6 daysSustained charge(s): Use of Force and Disobedience of Orders
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Erica Donald · Newark Police Department · 2025
Suspended 8 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty, Assistance to Citizens, Bound by Duty and Response to a Call.
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Alyssa Flores · Newark Police Department · 2025
Suspended 6 daysSustained charge(s): Conduct, Language, Performance, Police Image, and Conduct Unbecoming a Public Employee
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Luis Garcia · Newark Police Department · 2025
Suspended 15 daysSustained charge(s): Guarding Prisoners
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
74 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
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While apprehending a suspect, Detective Young deliberately struck a cell phone out of an unidentified female civilian's hand. The civilian was recording the detective's actions from a distance that did not interfere with his duties. Newark PD sustained a charge of conduct and suspended Young for 6 days in 2025.
Aquil Young has one major discipline record at Newark Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Aquil Young's reported base salary is $103,358, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Aquil Young has 7 years, 3 months of reported service.
Newark Police Department reported 1,119 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Aquil Young individually.