Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Oliver Garcia

Paterson Police Department · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Other sanction

Rank as reported: Detective
Sustained charge(s): Indictable Offense
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

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.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

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.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $96,075
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 7 years, 11 months

How to read this

The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

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/. ↩