BRIDGETON —

A police officer based at the

was arrested after pulling her gun on a man she was arguing with while on school grounds, a source said Monday.

The source also said that the victim was her husband.

According to a complaint filed by Bridgeton police officer Jospeh Lopez, 41-year-old Karla K. Diaz of Twin Oaks Drive, was charged with criminal mischief, aggravated assault and possession of a fire arm for an unlawful purpose for an event that occurred March 30.

The complaint reads that Diaz “ ... committed an act of aggravated assault, by pointing a fire arm at the victim.”

Diaz received the mischief charge because she damaged “...a photograph in closed (sic) in a clear plastic picture frame,” which belonged to the man at who she was aiming her gun.

A source said the incident occurred in the school parking lot around 9:45 a.m. Friday, as children were outside and celebrating "Career Day" on the grass nearby.

Superintendent Dr. Thomasina Jones would not comment on the incident.

“I cannot disclose any personnel matters that occur in the school,” she said.

Jones confirmed that Diaz is an educational enforcement officer with Bridgeton public schools, and that she is based at the West Avenue School.

Educational enforcement officers are a separate department from the Bridgeton Police Department, and Jones said that all of the officers operate underneath of the district’s Director of Security, Robert Stevens.

Jones said that all of the school system’s officers are armed with hand guns.

When asked what systems the school district had in place to monitor when educational enforcement officers draw their weapons while working, Jones said she would normally be notified by the director.

“Normally what would occur is our director of security would notify me,” she said.

She said she had not been informed of the Friday incident by Stevens. She said Monday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. that she would attempt to contact him, but before then would not even be able to acknowledge the incident had occurred.

By 8 p.m. she had not gotten back in contact with The News.

The Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office released the complaint and is handling the case due to the seriousness of the charges.

“We were just involved because it’s a school security officer, and because it involves indictable offenses,” said Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae.

After receiving all three charges, Diaz was released on her own recognizance by Judge Steven Neder, with the condition that she have no contact with the victim.

Neither Webb-McRae nor Jones could say if Diaz’s service weapon had been confiscated.

Jones would not say if Diaz was working in her normal post on Monday.

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