Lieutenant Shaun Butler was suspended without pay by the Mantua Township Police Department, according to a 2023 record, after being charged with indictable crimes stemming from an off-duty incident in 2021. The indictment, pending in criminal court, included official misconduct, computer crime for accessing data, witness tampering, conspiracy to tamper with public records, tampering with public records, criminal coercion, and a pattern of official misconduct. The department did not report the sustained charges.
Lt. Shaun Butler has been suspended without pay after being charged with indictable crimes stemming from an off-duty incident which occurred in 2021. An indictment was returned on the following statutes and are pending in criminal court: 2C:30-2a - Official misconduct-unauthorized use of official function 2C:20-25a - Computer crime-access data/computer etc. 2C:20-31b - Computer crime-access and disclose etc. 2C:28-5a(2) - Witness tampering-withhold testimony/info. 2C:5-2 - Conspiracy-tamper with public records 2C:28-7a(2), 2C:2-6, 2C:5-2 - Tamper with public records 2C:13-5a(4) - Criminal coercion-threaten to take/withhold official action 2C:30-7 - Official misconduct-pattern
Similar records
AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.
Krista Sheilds · Mantua Township Police Department · 2025
TerminatedSuspended 266 days
Sustained charge(s): Violation of NJ Law - Unbecoming Conduct Violation of Mantua Township Police Department Code of Ethics Vol.1, Ch. 2 III E. Confidentiality…
same agency
Doug Herner · Mantua Township Police Department · 2021
No confident pension match found. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Shaun Butler's major discipline record?
Lieutenant Shaun Butler was suspended without pay by the Mantua Township Police Department, according to a 2023 record, after being charged with indictable crimes stemming from an off-duty incident in 2021. The indictment, pending in criminal court, included official misconduct, computer crime for accessing data, witness tampering, conspiracy to tamper with public records, tampering with public records, criminal coercion, and a pattern of official misconduct. The department did not report the sustained charges.
What is Shaun Butler's major discipline record at Mantua Township Police Department?
Shaun Butler has one major discipline record at Mantua Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Mantua Township Police Department, the department Shaun Butler worked for?
Mantua Township Police Department reported 29 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Shaun Butler individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1685. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8322. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩