TerminatedSuspended 131 daysmost recent record, 2024 · as reported
Santiago has 2 sustained major discipline records from Middletown PD, all from 2024. The records include a termination and a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Theft; Theft.
Patrolman Brendan Santiago was suspended for 131 days and terminated by the Middletown Police Department in 2024. Santiago was suspended following an investigation of theft from a retail store and was then criminally charged by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office in connection with the theft and other similar incidents. He was terminated following his forfeiture of public office as part of the court proceedings. The sustained charge was theft.
Santiago was suspended following an investigation of theft from a retail store. Santiago was subsequently criminally charged by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office in regard to the theft and other incidents of a similar nature. Santiago was initially suspended and then terminated by the police department following his forfeiture of public office as part of the court proceedings.
Note: this source row is identical, field for field, to row 1197 of the same file. It may be a duplicate submission by the agency. Both rows are shown exactly as reported.
Plain-language summary
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The Middletown Police Department suspended Patrolman Brendan Santiago for 131 days and then terminated him in 2024. The suspension followed an investigation of theft from a retail store, and Santiago was criminally charged by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office over the theft and other incidents of a similar nature. His termination came after he forfeited public office as part of the court proceedings. The sustained charge was theft.
Santiago was suspended following an investigation of theft from a retail store. Santiago was subsequently criminally charged by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office in regard to the theft and other incidents of a similar nature. Santiago was initially suspended and then terminated by the police department following his forfeiture of public office as part of the court proceedings.
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No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows a termination; a terminated officer would not have an active PFRS/SPRS record at this agency, which is one reason no match may exist here. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Other general possibilities include insufficient vesting, a role not covered by PFRS or SPRS, a deferred or vested status not reflected in a current snapshot, or a data-matching limitation. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Brendan Santiago's major discipline record?
Santiago has 2 sustained major discipline records from Middletown PD, all from 2024. The records include a termination and a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Theft; Theft.
What is Brendan Santiago's major discipline record at Middletown Police Department?
Brendan Santiago has 2 major discipline records at Middletown Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Brendan Santiago's record show a termination?
Yes. At least one of Brendan Santiago's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2024.
How large is Middletown Police Department, the department Brendan Santiago worked for?
Middletown Police Department reported 115 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Brendan Santiago individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1197. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1198. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8446. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩