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Megan Reilly

Lower Township Police Department · 1 record · 2022

Terminated2022 · as reported

Special Officer Megan Reilly was terminated by the Lower Township Police Department in 2022 for violating departmental rules on performance of duty, obedience to laws, compromising criminal cases, and truthfulness. During a July 14, 2022 interview with the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, Reilly was untruthful to investigators on multiple occasions about her knowledge of and involvement in the creation of a fake bill of sale for a jet ski her fiance had purchased. The department reported that the underlying conduct justified the charges regardless of whether criminal charges were brought.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2022[1]

Terminated
Rank as reported
SLEO II (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
Rules of Conduct -Admin
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Special Officer Megan Reilly was terminated for violating Departmental rules and regulations. 4.1.1 Performance of Duty, 4.1.3 Obedience to Laws and Rules, 4.1.8 Compromising Criminal Cases, 4.12.6 Truthfulness. On or about July 11, 2022, Employee and her fiancée©, were alleged to have created a fake Bill of Sale for a jet ski that her fiancée© purchased in or around Dec. 2021. On July 14, 2022, Employee was interviewed by the Cape May County Prosecutor€™s Office in the course of the investigation into the aforementioned conduct. During said interview, Employee was untruthful to the investigators on multiple occasions as to her knowledge of and involvement in the underlying conduct that led to the allegations. Moreover, the underlying conduct of Employee which led to the investigation would also justify the above charges regardless of whether criminal charges were brought.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

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Other officers at Lower Township Police Department

6 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

Compensation and pension

No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows a termination; a terminated officer would not have an active PFRS/SPRS record at this agency, which is one reason no match may exist here. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Other general possibilities include insufficient vesting, a role not covered by PFRS or SPRS, a deferred or vested status not reflected in a current snapshot, or a data-matching limitation. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Megan Reilly's major discipline record?

Special Officer Megan Reilly was terminated by the Lower Township Police Department in 2022 for violating departmental rules on performance of duty, obedience to laws, compromising criminal cases, and truthfulness. During a July 14, 2022 interview with the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, Reilly was untruthful to investigators on multiple occasions about her knowledge of and involvement in the creation of a fake bill of sale for a jet ski her fiance had purchased. The department reported that the underlying conduct justified the charges regardless of whether criminal charges were brought.

What is Megan Reilly's major discipline record at Lower Township Police Department?

Megan Reilly has one major discipline record at Lower Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Does Megan Reilly's record show a termination?

Yes. At least one of Megan Reilly's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2022.

How large is Lower Township Police Department, the department Megan Reilly worked for?

Lower Township Police Department reported 49 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Megan Reilly individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2132. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8270. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩