On July 31, 2024, Detective Garcia was charged by the Attorney General's Office, Division of Criminal Justice, with indictable offenses related to conduct on or about August 25, 2020. The charges concerned an inaccurate salary listed on a loan application to buy a private vehicle and a misrepresentation of his occupation and the vehicle's garaging location on an insurance application. Garcia was charged with insurance fraud and falsifying or tampering with records. The Paterson Police Department reported a 30-day suspension and that the charges remain open.
On July 31, 2024, Detective Oliver Garcia was charged by the Attorney General's Office, Division of Criminal Justice, with indictable offenses related to conduct that occurred on or about August 25, 2020. It is alleged that Detective Garcia provided an inaccurate salary on a loan application to buy a private vehhicle and misrepresented his occupation and the location where the vehicle would be garaged on his insurance application. Detective Garcia was charged with Insurance Fraud and Falsifying or Tampering with Records. He was suspended for 30 days while the investigation was ongoing. The criminal charges remain open.
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What is a summary of Oliver Garcia's major discipline record?
On July 31, 2024, Detective Garcia was charged by the Attorney General's Office, Division of Criminal Justice, with indictable offenses related to conduct on or about August 25, 2020. The charges concerned an inaccurate salary listed on a loan application to buy a private vehicle and a misrepresentation of his occupation and the vehicle's garaging location on an insurance application. Garcia was charged with insurance fraud and falsifying or tampering with records. The Paterson Police Department reported a 30-day suspension and that the charges remain open.
What is Oliver Garcia's major discipline record at Paterson Police Department?
Oliver Garcia has one major discipline record at Paterson Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Oliver Garcia's base salary on record?
Oliver Garcia's reported base salary is $96,075, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Oliver Garcia has 7 years, 11 months of reported service.
How large is Paterson Police Department, the department Oliver Garcia worked for?
Paterson Police Department reported 412 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Oliver Garcia individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1249. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 225905, 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 8546. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩