NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Yet another meter reader at the New Brunswick Water Utility has been arrested, again charged with lowering customers' water bills in exchange for cash bribes. This is now the fifth public water employee to be arrested in the past four years in Middlesex County.

New Brunswick meter reader Guillermo Quinones, Jr., 49, of Somerset, was charged in April of this year with accepting more than $200 in cash bribes to lower water bills, according to the New Jersey Attorney General. He was charged with one count of bribery and one count of official misconduct, a public corruption charge.

The charges were brought by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office. It would appear the attorney general has been investigating the New Brunswick Water Utility for the past several years now, as well as other nearby Middlesex County water authorities, but that could not be confirmed.

The probe seems to be mainly focused on the New Brunswick Water Utility, but has expanded to other towns, including South River, where a water tester was arrested in January of this year, as Patch reported. At issue seems to be inspectors failing to properly inspect water safety, and meter readers taking bribes in exchange for lowering customers' bills.

The investigation could not be confirmed because the attorney general has a policy of neither confirming nor denying ongoing investigations, said AG spokesman Peter Aseltine. The AG's office released photos of the other four men arrested, but said Friday they do not have a photo of Quinones. Here are all the arrests so far:

Employees arrested at the New Brunswick Water Utility:

1. William Ortiz, from North Brunswick, was a water meter reader, arrested in 2016.