On January 7, 2025, Officer Castagnetto was arrested by the Newark Police Department in connection with a domestic violence incident and charged with two counts of aggravated assault under N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1B(4) for pointing a firearm at a party protected by the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act. The Paterson Police Department reported that the matter remained pending in Essex County Superior Court and that the internal affairs investigation would begin after the court disposition. Castagnetto was not suspended or terminated.
On January 7, 2025, Officer Gina Castagnetto was placed under arrest by the Newark Police Department for a Domestic Violence incident where she was charged with 2 counts of Aggravated Assault 2C: 12-1B(4), specifically by pointing a firearm at a party protected by the prevention of domestic violence act. It should be noted this matter is still ongoing at the Essex County Superior Court. The Internal Affairs investigation will commence at the completion of the Essex County Superior Court disposition.
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What is a summary of Gina Castagnetto's major discipline record?
On January 7, 2025, Officer Castagnetto was arrested by the Newark Police Department in connection with a domestic violence incident and charged with two counts of aggravated assault under N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1B(4) for pointing a firearm at a party protected by the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act. The Paterson Police Department reported that the matter remained pending in Essex County Superior Court and that the internal affairs investigation would begin after the court disposition. Castagnetto was not suspended or terminated.
What is Gina Castagnetto's major discipline record at Paterson Police Department?
Gina Castagnetto has one major discipline record at Paterson Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Gina Castagnetto's base salary on record?
Gina Castagnetto's reported base salary is $44,296, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Gina Castagnetto has 1 year, 7 months of reported service.
How large is Paterson Police Department, the department Gina Castagnetto worked for?
Paterson Police Department reported 412 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Gina Castagnetto individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 511. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 225836, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8546. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩