Former NJ police officer who staged his own shooting won't get disability pension

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By Jeff Goldman/The Star-Ledger


CAMDEN — A former police sergeant in Camden who arranged for his wife to shoot him in the leg in order to receive a disability pension has been denied in his quest to collect one, according to a report on Philly.com.

A state pension board denied Jeffrey Frett's application Wednesday. A member of the board who heard Jeffrey Frett's case then blasted the Blackwood resident for wasting the board's time.

"No way is this deserving of an accidental-disability pension," John Sierchio said. Sierchio also told the Philadelphia Inquirer it was "insane" the officer was not charged with a more serious offense and that Frett's wife wasn't charged.

Frett, 43, previously admitted that he and his wife had staged the incident in November 2010. Frett pleaded guilty to a disorderly persons offense. His wife, who was pulled over in a van a short distance away after firing on her husband along the side of Interstate 676, was not charged.

The bullet tore through her husband's pants and grazed his leg while he was on-duty, the report said.

A month later Frett applied for the disability pension, citing a car accident in which he was involved in 2008.

If Frett's request had been accepted he would have been eligible to receive up to 66 percent of his salary annually.

Frett agreed to resign from the force in May 2011 when he pleaded guilty to making a false police communication. He served a year of probation and paid $158 in fines.

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