Hudson County, NJ
hyp·o·crite [hip-uh-krit]
–noun
1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
[Origin: 1175–1225; ME ipocrite < OF < LL hypocrita < Gk hypokrits a stage actor, hence one who pretends to be what he is not, equiv. to hypokr(nesthai) (see hypocrisy) + -tés agent suffix]
Hudson County Sheriff Juan M. Perez has suspended the sheriff’s officer who was already on modified duty when she was arrested in Manhattan on a drunk driving charge this weekend, officials said.Officer Aleisha Cruz, 30, of Kearny, was suspended without pay yesterday pending the outcome of the police investigation triggered by her arrest at 4:15 a.m. Sunday at 42nd Street and Dyer Avenue, officials said.
Cruz was apparently involved in a collision near the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel, and Port Authority police arrested her based on her behavior after she refused to take a Breathalyzer test, officials said.
On March 16, 2006, Cruz pleaded guilty to drunk driving and refusing to take a Breathalyzer test in connection to a July 2005 incident in Lyndhurst, officials said.
In that incident, Cruz became enraged when her date told her he wasn’t going to spend the night with her and she repeatedly drove her 2005 Ford Explorer into his car, cops said. When he got out of the car to calm her down, she struck him with the SUV, but he wasn’t seriously injured, police said.
Criminal charges of aggravated assault and assault with an automobile were filed against her, but she entered a pre-trial intervention program and the charges were to be dropped if she stayed out of trouble for 18 months, officials said at the time.
Since then, Cruz has been unable to carry a gun based on an order by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office — which handled the Lyndhurst case — and has been assigned duties that can be performed by an unarmed officer, a sheriff’s office spokesman said.