A Toms River off-duty police officer has pleaded guilty to burglary, criminal mischief and simple assault in connection with a late-night break-in earlier this year, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced.
On November 17, 2025, Rebecca Sayegh, 32, of Toms River, entered the guilty pleas before Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan, P.J.Cr.P. The charges stem from a series of incidents that unfolded on April 25, 2025, in Berkeley Township.
According to prosecutors, Berkeley Township Police responded to an Evernhan Avenue home around 11:20 p.m. for a reported domestic disturbance. Officers found that Sayegh — who was off duty at the time — had smashed the home’s front glass door, entered the residence and damaged the hood of a vehicle belonging to one of the victims. She resisted officers’ attempts to place her under arrest but was ultimately taken into custody and later released under New Jersey Bail Reform.
As part of the plea, Sayegh was required to forfeit her position as a Toms River Township Police Officer, effective the same day as the plea, and is now barred from all future public employment in New Jersey.
At sentencing on January 16, 2026, the State is expected to seek 180 days in the Ocean County Jail as a condition of probation, along with no-contact orders for the victims and restitution.
Off-Duty Police Officer Who Broke Into Home Says The Burglary Would Never Have Occurred Had She been On-Duty At the Time Watching Over the Neighborhood
An off-duty police officer who burglarized a Berkley Township home earlier this year told reporters on Monday that the burglary never would have occurred had she “been on duty at the time, keeping an eye on the neighborhood.”
“I am fully confident in my policing abilities,” she asserted, “and I know for certain that burglaries never occur in an area that I am patrolling, and that the aforementioned robbery that I perpetrated would never have occurred had I been on-duty at the time watching over the neighborhood.”
“Because it is only when I am off-duty that thieves like me work up the courage to break into the homes,” she said, because we know that the rest of the cops in the area are not as vigilant and competent as I am.”
“Bottom line,” she added shortly before the judge announced her prison sentence, “if you hire top-notch cops like me to patrol the neighborhood 24/7, you’ll see that robberies like the one I carried out that night will come to a screeching halt.”
TLS–please give this guy a weekly post. PPl need humor in their lives