Officer Mauricio Garces of the Union City Police Department was suspended for 180 days after a July 2, 2023 arrest by the Secaucus Police Department for driving under the influence. According to the record, Garces was found asleep in his car while the vehicle was in drive at an intersection. On January 9, 2024, he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of liquor or drugs. The suspension was settled at 180 days.
On July 2nd, 2023, Officer Mauricio Garces was arrested by the Secaucus Police Department for driving under the influence after being found asleep in his car while the car was in drive at an intersection. On January 9, 2024, Officer Garces pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of liquor or drugs. P.O. Mauricio Garces settled on a 180-Day suspension.
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What is a summary of Mauricio Garces's major discipline record?
Officer Mauricio Garces of the Union City Police Department was suspended for 180 days after a July 2, 2023 arrest by the Secaucus Police Department for driving under the influence. According to the record, Garces was found asleep in his car while the vehicle was in drive at an intersection. On January 9, 2024, he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of liquor or drugs. The suspension was settled at 180 days.
What is Mauricio Garces's major discipline record at Union City Police Department?
Mauricio Garces has one major discipline record at Union City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Mauricio Garces's base salary on record?
Mauricio Garces's reported base salary is $92,863, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Mauricio Garces has 12 years, 9 months of reported service.
How large is Union City Police Department, the department Mauricio Garces worked for?
Union City Police Department reported 156 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Mauricio Garces individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 403. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 220451, 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 8347. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩