NJ’s Top Cop Disturbed By Trooper Caravan Reports

The leader of New Jersey’s police force is saddened that a veteran trooper’s career will likely be defined by a probe into an unauthorized police escort of a caravan of sports cars.

State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes says the allegations against Sgt. First Class Nadir Nassry are “very disturbing.”

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State Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa suspended Nassry and Trooper Joseph Ventrella without pay Monday.

That came after news reports recounted witnesses who saw high-performance luxury cars being escorted at high speeds on the Garden State Parkway on March 30.

Chiesa and Fuentes appeared before a Department of Law and Public Safety budget hearing Tuesday but discussed the caravan only briefly.

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