Suspended 183 daysSeparated while IA pending2025 · as reported
Between February 22, 2025 and March 5, 2025, off-duty Officer Rettino was handed a credit card that was not his by a restaurant employee, placed it in his wallet and used it several days later, Rockaway Boro PD reported. He was charged with two counts of credit card theft and one count of fraudulent use of the card, and all three allegations were sustained. Rettino was placed on paid suspension during the investigation. In lieu of termination he retired, entered a Pre-trial Intervention program and will not seek re-certification.
Between February 22, 2025 and March 5, 2025, Officer Rettino (off-duty) was handed a credit card that was not his, by an employee of a restaurant, Rettino placed that credit card in his wallet and then used that same credit card several days later. Upon investigation he was charged of 2 counts credit card theft 2C:21-6C(2) – receiving / retention and 1 count of fraudulent use of the card 2C:21-6H – All 3 allegations were sustained. Placed on paid suspension pending the MCPO investigation. In lieu of termination Officer Rettino retired, entered a Pre-trial Intervention program and will not seek re-certification as a police officer with the PTC.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Michael Rettino's major discipline record?
Between February 22, 2025 and March 5, 2025, off-duty Officer Rettino was handed a credit card that was not his by a restaurant employee, placed it in his wallet and used it several days later, Rockaway Boro PD reported. He was charged with two counts of credit card theft and one count of fraudulent use of the card, and all three allegations were sustained. Rettino was placed on paid suspension during the investigation. In lieu of termination he retired, entered a Pre-trial Intervention program and will not seek re-certification.
What is Michael Rettino's major discipline record at Rockaway Borough Police Department?
Michael Rettino has one major discipline record at Rockaway Borough Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Rockaway Borough Police Department, the department Michael Rettino worked for?
Rockaway Borough Police Department reported 18 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Michael Rettino individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 493. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8499. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩