Suspended 100 daysSeparated while IA pending2025 · as reported
Sergeant Eric Wachenheim was suspended for 100 days by the Milltown Police Department in 2025. While on duty, Wachenheim made inappropriate comments of a sexual nature toward several female employees and engaged in unwanted physical contact with multiple female employees in a manner that made them feel uncomfortable. The employees reported the incidents to the Internal Affairs Supervisor. Wachenheim separated from the agency while an internal affairs case was pending. The sustained charge was sexual harassment.
Sgt. Eric Wachenheim, while on duty, made inappropriate comments of a sexual nature toward several female employees. Additionally, Sgt. Wachenheim engaged in unwanted physical contact with multiple female employees in a manner that made them feel uncomfortable. The conduct was reported to have caused significant discomfort to the involved employees, prompting them to come forward and report the incidents to the Internal Affairs Supervisor.
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 (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Eric Wachenheim, Milltown Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/eric-wachenheim-milltown-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Eric Wachenheim's major discipline record?
Sergeant Eric Wachenheim was suspended for 100 days by the Milltown Police Department in 2025. While on duty, Wachenheim made inappropriate comments of a sexual nature toward several female employees and engaged in unwanted physical contact with multiple female employees in a manner that made them feel uncomfortable. The employees reported the incidents to the Internal Affairs Supervisor. Wachenheim separated from the agency while an internal affairs case was pending. The sustained charge was sexual harassment.
What is Eric Wachenheim's major discipline record at Milltown Police Department?
Eric Wachenheim has one major discipline record at Milltown Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Eric Wachenheim's pension on record?
Eric Wachenheim's reported monthly pension allowance is $5,426.50, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Eric Wachenheim has 20 years, 2 months of reported service.
How large is Milltown Police Department, the department Eric Wachenheim worked for?
Milltown Police Department reported 17 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Eric Wachenheim individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 445. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 366921 (member 44360606), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8399. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩