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Michael Antonucci

Essex County Sheriff's Office · 1 record · 2025

Suspended 15 days2025 · as reported

Sheriff's Officer Michael Antonucci was suspended for 15 days by the Essex County Sheriffs Office in 2025. The record states that Antonucci engaged in unprofessional and insubordinate conduct toward supervisory personnel within the Detective Bureau, including the use of profane language, argumentative behavior, and abandoning assigned duties during a warrant operation, which disrupted operations. The sustained charge was conduct unbecoming and discredit to the agency.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 15 days
Rank as reported
Sheriff's Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
/Discredit To The Agency
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

S/O Michael Antonucci was suspended for fifteen (15) days after engaging in unprofessional and insubordinate conduct toward supervisory personnel within the Detective Bureau, including the use of profane language, argumentative behavior, and abandoning assigned duties during a warrant operation, which disrupted operations.

Similar records

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

  • Douglas Baker · Essex County Sheriff's Office · 2025

    Suspended 6 days

    Sustained charge(s): Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

    same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

  • Ryan Terry · Essex County Sheriff's Office · 2025

    Terminated

    Sustained charge(s): Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

    same agency · same year · similar charge category

  • Bryant Olivo · Rutgers University Police Department · 2025

    Suspended 10 days

    Sustained charge(s): Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit to the Agency

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  • Amanda Kuchta · Essex County Sheriff's Office · 2024

    Suspended 6 days

    Sustained charge(s): Conduct Unbecoming a Public Employee; Incompetency, Inefficiency OR Failure to Perform Duties; ECSO General Order, Traffic Enforcement and…

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  • Vanessa Cuevas · Essex County Sheriff's Office · 2023

    Suspended 8 days

    Sustained charge(s): Violation of Pursuit Policy

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Other officers at Essex County Sheriff's Office

8 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 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. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Michael Antonucci's major discipline record?

Sheriff's Officer Michael Antonucci was suspended for 15 days by the Essex County Sheriffs Office in 2025. The record states that Antonucci engaged in unprofessional and insubordinate conduct toward supervisory personnel within the Detective Bureau, including the use of profane language, argumentative behavior, and abandoning assigned duties during a warrant operation, which disrupted operations. The sustained charge was conduct unbecoming and discredit to the agency.

What is Michael Antonucci's major discipline record at Essex County Sheriff's Office?

Michael Antonucci has one major discipline record at Essex County Sheriff's Office in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 305. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩