Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Daniel Soto

Jersey City Police Department · 1 record · 2022

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Major discipline · 2022^[1]

Suspended 15 days

Rank as reported: Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): Lost Weapon; Care and Use of Firearms; Conduct
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

Police Officer Daniel Soto was suspended for 15 days by the Jersey City Police Department in 2022. The department reported that Soto had stored his off-duty firearm in a dresser, then placed the dresser at the curb for trash pickup without checking it for any items. The dresser was placed into the garbage truck and removed. A lost property report was taken and a general alarm was assigned for the lost firearm.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Police Officer Daniel Soto had his off duty firearm stored in his dresser. Later he placed the dresser out to the curb for trash pick up and did not check the dresser for any items prior to taking it out to the trash. The dresser was placed into the garbage truck and removed. Lost property report was taken and general alarm assigned for lost firearm.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $114,293
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 10 years, 9 months

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 2212. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 233551, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩