A Superior Court judge denied a defense motion to toss an indictment for official misconduct brought against a detective sergeant in the county prosecutor’s office. According to the Cape May County Herald, Robert P. Harkins Jr., the defendant, was charged after he allegedly launched an unauthorized investigation into a hit-and-run parking lot fender bender in which his mother-in-law was the victim. Harkins was not satisfied with the response from local law enforcement following the December 2019 incident and, according to the state, allegedly took matters into his own hands, issuing a subpoena to the Middle Township Walgreens where the accident occurred and failing to properly document his actions in an internal system.