Trooper Jacob Sherry admitted to acting in an unofficial capacity to the discredit of the New Jersey State Police. While off duty, Sherry was involved in a physical altercation with an individual after a minor motor vehicle crash, then caused another crash that injured another person and fled the scene, which resulted in a criminal charge. He provided incomplete information about his involvement to local law enforcement and later entered a Pre-Trial Intervention program to satisfy the criminal charge. Sherry received a 1,673 day suspension.
Attempting to Use Position to Intimidate and Gain Favor
Failure to Take Appropriate Police Action
Assault by Auto
Leaving the Scene of MV Accident
Intentional False Statements
Failure to Notify the Division of Information to Which the Division Would Take Cognizance
Off Duty Incident - Alcohol Related
Misleading Reports
Failure to Carry Duty Weapon
Questionable Conduct - Off Duty
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Member admitted to acting in an unofficial capacity to the discredit of the Division. While off-duty, the member was involved in a physical altercation with an individual after a minor motor vehicle crash. The member subsequently caused another motor vehicle crash causing injury to another and fled the scene which resulted in a criminal charge. The member also provided incomplete information regarding their involvement to local law enforcement. The member later entered into a Pre-Trial Intervention program to satisfy the criminal charge. The member received a 1,673 day suspension.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Jacob Sherry's major discipline record?
Trooper Jacob Sherry admitted to acting in an unofficial capacity to the discredit of the New Jersey State Police. While off duty, Sherry was involved in a physical altercation with an individual after a minor motor vehicle crash, then caused another crash that injured another person and fled the scene, which resulted in a criminal charge. He provided incomplete information about his involvement to local law enforcement and later entered a Pre-Trial Intervention program to satisfy the criminal charge. Sherry received a 1,673 day suspension.
What is Jacob Sherry's major discipline record at New Jersey State Police?
Jacob Sherry has one major discipline record at New Jersey State Police in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Jacob Sherry's base salary on record?
Jacob Sherry's reported base salary is $84,147, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Jacob Sherry has 5 years, 7 months of reported service.
How large is New Jersey State Police, the department Jacob Sherry worked for?
New Jersey State Police reported 3,351 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Jacob Sherry individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2306. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 254341, 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 8645. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩