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Edgar Gonzalez

Elizabeth Police Department · 1 record · 2023

Separated while IA pending2023 · as reported

Officer Edgar Gonzalez separated from the Elizabeth Police Department while an internal affairs matter was pending. Gonzalez wrote in an official police report that he might have possibly picked up a license plate amongst the debris at a traffic accident investigation. During an internal affairs interview, Gonzalez admitted that he knew the item he picked up and later discarded was in fact a New Jersey license plate.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2023[1]

Separated while IA pending
Rank as reported
Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
False Reports/Statements
Separated while IA pending
Yes

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Ofc. Gonzalez wrote in an official police report that he "might have possibly picked up a license plate amongst the debris" at a traffic accident investigation. However, Ofc. Gonzalez admitted during an IA interview that he knew the item he picked up and later discarded was in fact a NJ license plate.

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Other officers at Elizabeth Police Department

12 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 12 at the Elizabeth Police Department page

Compensation and pension

No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows they resigned, retired, transferred, or otherwise separated from this agency while an internal affairs matter was pending, which can affect whether a current PFRS/SPRS record exists 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. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Edgar Gonzalez's major discipline record?

Officer Edgar Gonzalez separated from the Elizabeth Police Department while an internal affairs matter was pending. Gonzalez wrote in an official police report that he might have possibly picked up a license plate amongst the debris at a traffic accident investigation. During an internal affairs interview, Gonzalez admitted that he knew the item he picked up and later discarded was in fact a New Jersey license plate.

What is Edgar Gonzalez's major discipline record at Elizabeth Police Department?

Edgar Gonzalez has one major discipline record at Elizabeth Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How large is Elizabeth Police Department, the department Edgar Gonzalez worked for?

Elizabeth Police Department reported 337 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Edgar Gonzalez individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1982. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  2. [2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8604. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/.