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Report: Township Cop Busted For DWI While On Duty; Details Shrouded In Prosecutor’s Investigation

June 5, 2019 Crime

Matthew D. Ellery
FTPD Officer Matthew D. Ellery is sworn in to his position at the Jan. 24, 2017 Township Council meeting. (Franklin Reporter & Advocate file photo.)

An on-duty township Police officer was charged in April with driving under the influence of drugs the same day the case was transferred from Franklin Township Municipal Court to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

Court records show that Matthew D. Ellery was charged on April 15 with DWI, for an incident that occurred a little after 1 a.m. on April 7 at the Puskas dairy farm on Bennetts Lane. There is no indication of why eight days elapsed before the charge was filed.

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