48 year old Joseph Jenkins-Ridley, from Mays Landing, was recently indicted by an Atlantic County Grand Jury on second-degree charges of Official Misconduct, Theft, and Conspiracy for his role orchestrating and leading a large-scale diesel-fuel theft operation.
In May 2025, members of the Atlantic County Department of Public Works alerted law
enforcement to irregularities in their diesel fuel logs. An investigation revealed that JenkinsRidley had been using his position as a supervisor in Public Works to gain access to the Atlantic
County fuel pumps to fuel trucks that he owns in connection with his private business, Z5
Logistics. Since March 2023, Jenkins-Ridley has directed his employees at Z5 to fuel the trucks
almost daily at the County fuel pumps. The total amount of fuel stolen is just under $80,000.