FREEHOLD — Jurors in Monmouth County have convicted a New Jersey
police officer of shoplifting flooring from a Home Depot while he was
off duty.


Darnell Esdaile must forfeit his job as a patrolman with the Freehold
Police Department, where he has worked since 1996. He earned $99,402 a
year.Prosecutors say the 46-year-old was arrested after he left the store in
neighboring Freehold Township without paying for laminate flooring
valued at less than $500 in 2010.



Prosecutors say the police officer used a receipt from a previous purchase to claim he had paid for the material.
Esdaile faces up to 18 months in prison when he’s sentenced in September.

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