Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Jonathan Librizzi

Garfield Police Department · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 8 days

Rank as reported: Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): , , Action Off-Duty, Failure to Perform Duties
Other sanction: Monetary fine or loss of pay
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Officer Jonathan Librizzi was suspended for 8 days and received a monetary penalty from the Garfield Police Department. On November 19, 2023, while off-duty, Librizzi committed criminal mischief by knowingly damaging the property of another, striking the screen of a drive-through ATM machine and causing damage. The department reported that he did not immediately contact the Garfield Police Department or the department in the jurisdiction where the damage occurred. On December 5, 2023, he was charged with fourth-degree Criminal Mischief, a charge later dismissed in Municipal Court.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On November 19, 2023, while off-duty, Officer Jonathan Librizzi committed the act of Criminal Mischief by knowingly damaging tangible property of another, specifically by striking the screen of a drive through ATM machine, causing damages. Officer Librizzi did not immediately contact the Garfield Police Department nor the Police Department in the jurisidiciton where the damages were caused to advise either department of the incident. The incident was brought to the attention of the Garfield Police Department on November 27, 2023 by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Confidential Investigations Unit. On December 5, 2023 Officer Librizzi was charged with 2C:17-3A (1), Criminal Mischief, in the Fourth Degree. The charge was later dismissed in Municipal Court.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $170,724
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 12 years

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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 877. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 231890, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩