Officer Sean Lake was suspended for 15 days by the Newark Police Department in 2020 in connection with a motor vehicle stop during which he acted unprofessionally and issued the driver five summonses. The agency did not report the sustained charges.
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.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Sean Lake's major discipline record?
Officer Sean Lake was suspended for 15 days by the Newark Police Department in 2020 in connection with a motor vehicle stop during which he acted unprofessionally and issued the driver five summonses. The agency did not report the sustained charges.
What is Sean Lake's major discipline record at Newark Police Department?
Sean Lake has one major discipline record at Newark Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2020. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Sean Lake's base salary on record?
Sean Lake's reported base salary is $131,204, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Sean Lake has 8 years, 3 months of reported service.
How large is Newark Police Department, the department Sean Lake worked for?
Newark Police Department reported 1,119 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Sean Lake individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2845. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 218453, 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 8643. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩