On March 5, 2023, Recruit Nicholas Mossey was stopped by the Belmar Township Police Department for driving his vehicle unsafely, doing doughnuts in a parking lot. Mossey failed to notify the Morris County Police Academy and the Morris Plains PD of the police interaction in a timely manner and was not forthcoming about it. The agency sustained charges of untruthfulness and lack of candor, and Mossey resigned following the investigation.
On March 5th, 2023, Recruit Mossey was stopped by Belmar Township Police Department for driving his vehicle in an unsafe manner. Specifically, Recruit Mossey was doing "doughnuts" in a parking lot in Belmar Township. Recruit Mossey failed to notify the Morris County Police Academy and Morris Plains Police Department of his police interaction in a timely manner. Further, Recruit Mossey was not forthcoming with the incident, violated our agencies Code of Ethics, and violated our Rules & Regulations. An Internal Affairs Investigation was completed, which the charges were sustained. Recruit Mossey resigned from the Morris Plains Police Department following the investigation.
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What is a summary of Nicholas Mossey's major discipline record?
On March 5, 2023, Recruit Nicholas Mossey was stopped by the Belmar Township Police Department for driving his vehicle unsafely, doing doughnuts in a parking lot. Mossey failed to notify the Morris County Police Academy and the Morris Plains PD of the police interaction in a timely manner and was not forthcoming about it. The agency sustained charges of untruthfulness and lack of candor, and Mossey resigned following the investigation.
What is Nicholas Mossey's major discipline record at Morris Plains Police Department?
Nicholas Mossey has one major discipline record at Morris Plains Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Morris Plains Police Department, the department Nicholas Mossey worked for?
Morris Plains Police Department reported 20 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Nicholas Mossey individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1829. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8488. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩