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By Tom Haydon | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

New Jersey has 550-plus police departments employing more than 33,000 officers. Among the line of men and women in blue are some who are accused of violating laws they have sworn to uphold. Here are many of the officers and former officers who have been charged or been sentenced for more serious crimes since 2013.

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Philip Seidle

Seidle, a Neptune police sergeant, shot his wife to death on June 16, 2015 in broad daylight, on a busy Asbury Park street - with his daughter inside the vehicle. He was fired and sentenced in September 2016 to serve 30 years in prison.

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Jason R. Miller

Miller, a former Newton cop, was charged in November 2014 with two counts of official misconduct, one count of a pattern of official misconduct and one count of lewdness and accused of unzipping his pants during "numerous" stops of young male drivers. In August 2015, he pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with records, a fourth-degree crime, admitting he'd shut off the audio and video components of his police car's dashboard camera system "to conceal unprofessional and inappropriate conduct" between March 1, 2014 and Oct. 23, 2014. In exchange for the guilty plea, he forfeited his police job of 15 years and was sentenced to two years probation, ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation and pay a $150 fine.

In December 2016, while he was still on probation, Miller was accused of sexually assaulting a boy in a Burger King bathroom and charged with sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal restraint and criminal sexual contact. Miller was released from jail in April and may again be offered a plea deal.

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Michael Dotro

Dotro, former Edison officer, is accused of setting his police captain's house on fire while the captain's wife, children and 92-year-old mother were asleep in the home in May 2013. He's also been accused of plotting to firebomb another officers house, buying marijuana in uniform, accessing the department's computer database illegally to review police records, carrying prohibited weapons, and slashing the tires of a police department employee he is suspected of having an affair with. His wife is also charged in the tire slashing escapade.

Dotro faces more than 39 years in prison and will not be eligible for parole for at least 15 years if convicted on all charges, his attorney has said. (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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James Stuart

Ex-Deptford police Officer Stuart is serving a 30-year prison sentence for the January 2013 killing of his friend, 27-year-old David Compton. Stuart fired his service weapon after a night of drinking, and said he fired accidentally. (Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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Monroe Police Department

Robert Marzi

Marzi, a suspended police officer with the Monroe Township Police Department, Gloucester County, was indicted earlier this month on charges of helping two women who face criminal charges. He allegedly offered to intervene for them in exchange for sex.

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Sean Courter

Former Bloomfield police Officer Sean Courter is also serving a five-year prison sentence after being convicted of official misconduct over a false report he filed about an arrest he and his partner, Orlando Trinidad made in 2012.

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Sam Woody

Woody, a former Plainfield police officer, was sentenced in December 2013 to serve a six-year prison sentence for falsely charging a woman and threatening her with a jail sentence to coerce her into a sexual assault. (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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Steve Solari

Solari, formerly a Little Silver officer, was sentenced in March 2014 to a five-year prison sentence after he was convicted of official misconduct for repeatedly hitting a man in the head while the man was handcuffed.(Rob Spahr | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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Pedro Abad

Former Linden police officer Abad was sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison for the 2015 drunk-driving crash that occurred when he was returning home from a Staten Island strip club and turned the wrong-way onto a highway. He crashed head-on into a truck, killing two other Linden men in his car and injuring a third Linden man. (Robert Sciarrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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Favretto, left, with his attorney, Anthony Iacullo.

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Brian Favretto

Favretto, a former Edison police officer, was fined $325 for his role in a plot with three other Edison officers to retaliate against a North Brunswick officer. Farvetto was freed without being placed on probation as part of a plea agreement reached with the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office. (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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Victor Aravena

A former Edison officer, Aravena has pleaded to guilty to his role in a plan with three other Edison cops to retaliate against a North Brunswick officer. Aravena, is scheduled to be sentenced in October, according to court records. (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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Tuckerton Police Department

Justin Cherry

Suspended Tuckerton police Cpl. Justin Cherry is charged with second-degree official misconduct and third-degree aggravated assault for allegedly allowing a police dog to attack and bite a woman following a traffic stop. His trial is scheduled for later this year.

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Scott Smith

Scott Smith, a former Hasbrouck Heights police officer, is serving a 25-year prison sentence for the 2011 killing of a childhood friend who was stabbed more than 40 times. (NJ Advance Media file photo)

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Hugo Fierro

Hugo Fierro, a former Newark police officer, is serving a five-year prison term for hitting man with his gun during an off-duty incident. (John O'Boyle | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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Joseph Reiman

Reiman, a Carteret cop, is accused of beating a 16-year-old after a short car chase. Reiman was charged with assault and three counts of official misconduct for failing to activate his body camera and for failing to use "reasonable discretion or restraint" during an arrest. Mayor Daniel Reiman is the officer's older brother.

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Keith German

German, a former Asbury Park officer, is one of three men accused of being involved with organized crime ganga on the streets of Asbury Park. German and his co-defendants were on trial, but the former officer stopped attending the trial in mid-June, and was arrested as a fugitive a week later in North Carolina.

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William Gesell

Gesell, one of three Edison Township officers who pleaded guilty to plotting retaliation against a North Brunswick officer, was fined $325 and allowed to go free without probation, under a plea agreement reached with the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office earlier this year. (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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Wilfredo Guzman

Suspended Rockway police Officer Wilfredo Guzman was charge last April with sexual assaulting two teenage girls in 2014 and 2015. One girl was between the ages of 16 and 17 and the other was 15. (Robert Sciarrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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State Police

Matthew Van Houten

Former Camden County police officer Matthew Van Houten was arrested in 2015 and charged with possession of cocaine while he was an officer. He was one of 32 people arrested in a State Police drug bust titled "Operation Tidal Wave." Van Houten is scheduled to be sentenced next month, according to court records.

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Kenneth Righter

Righter, a Stratford Borough police officer, was charged with three second-degree counts of endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly leaving a loaded firearm unsecured and accessible to his children, ages 8, 14 and 17. His 8-year-old daughter Sailor Lane Righter found the gun on New Years Eve and shot herself, officials said. She died at the hospital.

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William Lunder

A former Sussex County sheriff's officer, Lunger pleaded guilty last January to conspiracy to commit official misconduct after admitting he had a sexual relationship with a woman who was admitted into drug court. He was sentenced to three years probation. (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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Stephanie Roggina

Roggina, a rookie Scotch Plains cop, was indicted by a Hunterdon County grand jury on a resisting arrest charge in October. That charge was downgraded to a disorderly person's offense and she pleaded guilty on March 17 to disorderly conduct for improper behavior.

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Juan Romaniello

Romaniello, a former Jersey City police officer, pleaded guilty in federal court to

accepting $230,000 from companies

that were required to have police officers at work sites. Romaniello, who was scheduled to be sentenced in December, died July 3 at age 55.

(Jersey Journal file photo)

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Domenico Lillo

Lillo, a former Bayonne police officer, pleaded guilty to one count of deprivation of civil rights, one count of falsifying records to impede a civil rights investigation and assisting in the filing of a false report to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help a relative fraudulently obtain a federally funded home rehabilitation loan. It's not clear if he was sentenced yet.

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Francis Styles

Styles, an officer with the Bayonne Police Department, was charged with one count of falsifying records in a federal investigation and one count of "misprision of a felony" for his role in attempting to conceal police brutality by former Bayonne Police Officer Domenico Lillo.

Lillo has already pleaded guilty to using excessive force during an arrest in 2013.

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Orlando Trinidad

Former Bloomfield police Officer Orlando Trinidad was sentenced in January 2016 to five years in prison after being convicted of official misconduct for filing a false police report about a prisoner he assaulted.

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Jessica Remo

William F. Turbett III

William F. Turbett III, a former Linden police sergeant and the son of a Linden police captain, resigned from the force after he was accused of selling marijuana. He was pleaded guilty to a charge of fourth-degree distribution of the drug. (Jessica Remo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

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