Hamilton police said they were called to the Spring Carnival at the mall in the Mays Landing section of the township Friday night and implemented crowd control measures.
According to the affidavit in the case the officer, along with a member of the Atlantic County Justice Facility's medical staff, was handing out medications to inmates when he was assaulted.
A Mays Landing couple recently married with four children between them died following a head-on crash in the early hours of Saturday, according to State Police.
The incident was reported as it happened in June 2022 in Atlantic County — Shawn C. Nguyen, of Egg Harbor Township, was arrested nearly two years later.
A police officer with the New Jersey State Police is in the hospital with serious injuries after a crash on the Atlantic City Expressway on Oct. 27, 2023.