Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Luis Sandoval

Newark Police Department · 1 record · 2023

About this data

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Major discipline · 2023^[1]

Suspended 30 days

Rank as reported: PO
Sustained charge(s): & Unathorized Absence
Separated while IA pending: not reported

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

Even after the police surgeon instructed him to return to work with light-duty restrictions, Officer Sandoval persisted in being excessively absent from his duties. Newark PD sustained charges of chronic or excessive absenteeism and unauthorized absence and suspended Sandoval for 30 days in 2023.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Even after being instructed by the police surgeon to return to work with light-duty restrictions, Officer Sandoval persisted in being excessively absent from his duties.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $119,850
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 9 years

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 1673. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 218828, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩