Officer ‘smashed’ through ex-boyfriend’s door, assaulted him and another woman before threatening to burn down his home: Police

A 32-year-old constabulary serviceman successful New Jersey has been arrested for allegedly breaking into her ex-boyfriend’s house and violently assaulting 2 individuals inside.

Rebecca Sayegh, a nine-year seasoned of the Toms River Police Department, was taken into custody Friday and charged with 1 number each of first-degree home invasion burglary, terroristic threats, and resisting arrest, authorities announced.

Sayegh was besides charged with 2 counts each of battle and transgression mischief.

According to a news release from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, officers with the Berkeley Township Police Department astatine astir 11:20 p.m. connected Friday responded to a telephone astir a home disturbance astatine a residence connected Evernhan Avenue. The location is astir 65 miles southbound of Newark, New Jersey.

Upon arriving astatine the address, archetypal responders rapidly located an big pistillate — aboriginal identified arsenic Sayegh — who they said had “smashed the beforehand solid doorway of the residence, entered the residence, and past assaulted and threatened 2 victims wrong the residence,” prosecutors wrote. Sayegh was said to beryllium off-duty astatine the clip of the alleged incident.

“It was besides determined that Sayegh damaged the hood of a conveyance belonging to 1 of the victims which was parked successful the driveway of the residence,” the merchandise states. “Sayegh was taken into custody astatine the country — aft having resisted efforts to peacefully spot her nether arrest.”

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New Jersey Advance Media reported that Sayegh’s fellow was astatine the location with different pistillate erstwhile she allegedly broke successful and physically struck some of them earlier smashing aggregate items successful the house. As she was being led distant by police, Sayegh allegedly made threats that she was going to pain down her ex-boyfriend’s house.

Initially, Sayegh was served with the aforementioned charges by mode of summons. However, owed to the “serious nature” of the charges levied against her, Sayegh connected April 28 was re-charged via warrant. Police placed her nether apprehension astatine her residence and she was subsequently transported to the Ocean County Jail.

Sayegh made her archetypal quality successful tribunal connected Tuesday earlier Brick Township Municipal Judge Joseph Grisanti, according to a report from the Asbury Park Press. During the hearing, Grisanti reportedly informed Sayegh that prosecutors were seeking to person her held without enslaved until the lawsuit against her was resolved. The justice yet ordered Sayegh to stay successful detention pending a proceeding connected the enslaved question scheduled for Friday.

“Officer Sayegh understands the value of the charges filed against her,” her attorney, Terrance Turnbach, told the Park Press. “She has been a subordinate of the Toms River Police Department and proudly served her assemblage for astir 9 years. She is taking each of the due steps to decently code the substance astatine manus and volition stay cooperative passim the pending ineligible proceedings.”

Sayegh successful October 2024 filed a suit claiming the Toms River Police Department was a “Boys Club” that repeatedly denied her promotions contempt the information that she performed her duties “in an exemplary fashion.” The ailment states that Sayegh had been subjected to intersexual harassment, disparate treatment, and retaliation connected the ground of gender, tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to the suit, Sayegh’s superior officers “spread mendacious and defamatory rumors” that she was “sleeping with assorted antheral coworkers” and besides “commented connected Plaintiff’s quality and insinuated that Plaintiff could not implicit the responsibilities of her presumption simply due to the fact that she is simply a woman.

Sayegh’s lawsuit against the section is inactive pending.