New Jersey Volunteer Fire Department chief faces sexual assault charges

🚓Head of the volunteer fire department charged

🚓 The complaint states that the attack occurred in a vehicle 2 years ago

🚓 A victim came forward last month

MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP – The chief of the Ridgeway Volunteer Fire Co. has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in August 2022.

Michael Trimarchi, 55, of Manchester, was charged with criminal sexual contact and sexual assault, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said.

The woman reported her claims to Manchester Police in September.

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According to investigators, the woman was attacked in a vehicle on August 10, 2022.

Police arrested Trimarchi this week. He is being held in the Ocean County Jail pending his hearing.

According to the fire department’s Facebook post from September, Trimarchi has been in the fire service for over 40 years.

The district attorney’s office is asking anyone with information to call Sgt. Stephanie Bayha at 732-929-2027 ext. 3861.

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