Detective Zachary DeWeese did not report to work as scheduled on December 30, 2021, after being notified that all leave required approval, the Cape May County Prosecutors Office reported. DeWeese also discussed an internal affairs investigation in which he was a target with other members of the agency after being ordered not to do so. The 2023 record sustained charges of insubordination and being away without leave. DeWeese received an 8-day suspension and a written reprimand.
Det. DeWeese did not report to work as scheduled on December 30, 2021 after he was notified that all leave must be approved. Det. DeWeese did commit an act of when he was ordered not to discuss the internal affairs investigation in which he was a target. Det. DeWeese did discuss the investigation with other members of the agency, against this order.
Similar records
AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.
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 Zachary DeWeese's major discipline record?
Detective Zachary DeWeese did not report to work as scheduled on December 30, 2021, after being notified that all leave required approval, the Cape May County Prosecutors Office reported. DeWeese also discussed an internal affairs investigation in which he was a target with other members of the agency after being ordered not to do so. The 2023 record sustained charges of insubordination and being away without leave. DeWeese received an 8-day suspension and a written reprimand.
What is Zachary DeWeese's major discipline record at Cape May County Prosecutor's Office?
Zachary DeWeese has one major discipline record at Cape May County Prosecutor's Office in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, the department Zachary DeWeese worked for?
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office reported 37 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Zachary DeWeese individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1615. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8279. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩