Officer record · As reported by the employing agency
Hudson County Corrections · 1 record · 2023
Suspended 90 days2023 · as reported
Officer Estefani Ciriaco was suspended for 90 days by the Hudson County Department of Corrections in 2023. The agency reported that Ciriaco left the county-issued firearm and ammunition unsecured and unattended in a gym bag, where an inmate had access to it, while assigned to the hospital detail. This occurred after a supervisor told her to secure the firearm on the gunbelt before leaving the jail facility. The sustained charges were incompetency, insubordination, conduct unbecoming and neglect of duty.
Major discipline · 2023[1]
Suspended 90 daysSynopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Ciriaco left the county-issued firearm and ammunition unsecured and unattended in a gym bag where an inmate had access to it while assigned to the hospital detail. This occurred after being told by the supervisor to .secure the firearm on the gunbelt before leaving the jail facility.
Background: Corrections agencies account for a large share of New Jersey's major police discipline.
Dario Medina · Hudson County Corrections · 2023
Suspended 20 daysSustained charge(s): Incompetency, Inefficency or Failure to Perfom Duties, Conduct Unbeoming, Neglect of Duty,
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
James Pagano · Hudson County Corrections · 2023
Suspended 20 daysSustained charge(s): Chronic or Excessive Absenteeism, Insubordination, Neglect of Duty
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Jahnelly Eckkhardt · Hudson County Corrections · 2023
Suspended 20 daysSustained charge(s): Chronic or Excessive Absenteeism, Insubordination, Neglect of Duty
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Timothy O'Conner · Hudson County Corrections · 2023
Suspended 35 daysSustained charge(s): Conduct Unbecoming, Neglect of Duty,
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Frank Capoano · Hudson County Corrections · 2025
Suspended 65 daysSustained charge(s): Incompetency, Insubordination, Conduct Unbecoming, Neglect of Duty and Other Sufficent Cause
same agency · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
33 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Estefani Ciriaco, Hudson County Corrections," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/estefani-ciriaco-hudson-co-corrections/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Officer Estefani Ciriaco was suspended for 90 days by the Hudson County Department of Corrections in 2023. The agency reported that Ciriaco left the county-issued firearm and ammunition unsecured and unattended in a gym bag, where an inmate had access to it, while assigned to the hospital detail. This occurred after a supervisor told her to secure the firearm on the gunbelt before leaving the jail facility. The sustained charges were incompetency, insubordination, conduct unbecoming and neglect of duty.
Estefani Ciriaco has one major discipline record at Hudson County Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.