(a)(6) a Public Employee. (a)(12) . C8: Falsification: Intentional misstatement of material fact in connection with work, employment application, attendance, or in any record, report, investigation or other proceeding. C11: an employee. D6c. Loss or careless control of firearms. E1: Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order, or administrative decision. N.J.S.A. 2C: 39-10A (1) Violation of the regulatory provisions relating to firearms; false representation in applications. 4th degree offense.
Separated while IA pending
No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Senior Correctional Police Officer Daniqua Lewter was suspended for 90 days by the Dept Of Corrections. On January 29, 2021, Lewter told the Orange Police Department that her registered firearm had been stolen from her cousin's house, where she had given it for safekeeping. Lewter did not disclose that she was a Correctional Officer until April 15, 2021, when she admitted giving the gun to a cousin who was unlicensed to carry a weapon. She was charged with a fourth-degree offense and signed a settlement on January 4, 2024.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On January 29, 2021, Officer Lewter provided a statement to the Orange Police Department that her registered firearm was stolen. It was reported that the weapon was stolen from her cousin's house which Officer Lewter gave her firearm to for safe keeping. During initial conversations with the Police Officer Lewter failed to disclose that she was a NJDOC Correctional Officer until she made a secondary statement on April 15, 2021 and admitted to giving her registered gun to her cousin who was unlicensed to carry a weapon. Following the reports, Officer Lewter was charged with a 4th degree offense. Officer Lewter signed a settlement agreement on this matter on January 4, 2024.
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 1387. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213304, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩