Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Jeffrey Magahan

Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 3 days

Rank as reported: Sergeant
Sustained charge(s): Violation of Dept. Search Procedures /
Other sanction: Loss of time
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Sergeant Magahan made an improper entry into an apartment and neglected his duty by failing to ensure that a missing persons investigation began after learning the person sought met the criteria of a high-risk missing person, the Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department reported. The conduct occurred in 2023 but was finalized in 2024. Magahan forfeited 10 vacation days and received a 3-day suspension.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Sergeant Magahan made an improper entry into an apartment. Sergeant Magahan also neglected his duty by failing to ensure that a missing persons investigation commenced after having knowledge that the person being sought met the criteria of a 'high-risk' missing person. The conduct occurred in 2023, but was finalized in 2024. Sergeant Magahan forfeited ten (10) Vacation Days and received a three (3) day suspension.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $182,295
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 22 years, 9 months

How to read this

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 (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1224. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 235598, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩