VT VT - Brian Brady, 57, former Sparta, NJ, mayor, car found near bridge, Addison, late May 2019

[GuyfromCanada]

ADDISTON, VT - Former Sparta resident and former mayor, Brian Brady, 57, has been reported missing according to the Vermont State Police. The Vermont State Police scuba team, with assistance from the New York State Police and Essex County, New York Sheriff's Office, searched Lake Champlain after a car rented by Brady was found empty near the Champlain Bridge in Addison, Vermont on Friday, May 31, according to authorities.

Responding to a request made by family members for a welfare check of Brady's condo at Smuggler's Notch Resort on Thursday, May 30 around 3:18 p.m. Vermont State Troopers found the property empty. Police did not comment on the condition of the condo.

On Friday, May 31, the car Brady rented on May 22 in New Jersey was found in a park and ride lot about a quarter of a mile from the Champlain Bridge according to police.

Police say search efforts were suspended Saturday evening and that Brady remains unaccounted for. No further search activities are scheduled.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call the State Police: 802-878-7111.

Search suspended for missing NJ man

A New Jersey appeals court ruled on Aug. 31, 2018, that Brady was given an improperly light sentence of one year on unsupervised probation for improper use of police databases. The court said the judge incorrectly downgraded the crimes and the 30-year police veteran needed to face time in prison. Brady was still awaiting re-sentencing.

Brady served on the Sparta Township Council from June 2006 to June 2010, including as mayor from 2008 to 2009.

He was a suspended police captain with the New Jersey Human Services Police when convicted at a 2014 trial on two charges he misused police databases for personal purposes, officials said. A judge cleared Brady on seven other counts.

Superior Court Judge Andrew J. Smithson convicted Brady for second-degree counts of official misconduct and computer theft following 25 days of trial in Mercer County.

Each of those charges carried a potential sentence of five to 10 years in state prison.

The judge, to spare Brady, downgraded the convictions from second degree — which, under the state's sentencing guidelines, would have all but assured he went to prison for up to five years — to charges of the third degree, the New Jersey Herald reported.

The state appealed and a three-judge panel said Brady received an unjustifiably light sentence, the paper said.

Former NJ mayor goes missing near lake

 

[Steelslady]

https://vtdigger.org/2019/06/04/sta...ain-former-new-jersey-mayor-reported-missing/

Nothing really new. I suspect self harm myself.

 

[Cagle]

Nothing new here
NJ man believed missing in Vermont was awaiting sentencing

 

[modesty blaise]

Self harm or faking it is my guess.
Shame on the judge who down graded his conviction in an effort to stop him from taking accountability for his actions.

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

Shame on the judge who down graded his conviction in an effort to stop him from taking accountability for his actions.

SBM. Yes, this. This, this, this, this, this.

 

[TatianaBarbie]

From June 7, 2019:

Missing man sent suicide note, will to brother

". . .On Thursday, Ringwood Police Chief Joseph Walker said his department got a call around 11:15 a.m. May 30 from a friend of Brady's who was concerned he was not able to get in touch with Brady. Walker said patrols went to Brady's apartment, on the bottom floor of the complex, and did not find him there.

Several hours later, Brady's brother called Ringwood police, Walker said, and indicated he received a package from Brady containing a suicide note, car keys, his cell phone, and documents containing his will and an authorization for his power of attorney. The package had been postmarked May 24 from Jeffersonville, Vt., located about five miles from a condo Brady owns in Smuggler's Notch Resort. . . ." BBM
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There is more info in this long article, if you follow the link.

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