the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Bridgewater NJ, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced today that, following an approximately three-week trial, suspended Manville Police Chief Thomas Herbst was convicted by a jury in Somerville, New Jersey, of several counts of Official Misconduct and related offenses, stemming from sexually assaultive and sexually inappropriate activity against several subordinates, both inside and outside the workplace, frequently while he was on duty.