Aggravated assault and stalking charges dropped against NJ police officer over ‘lack of evidence’
⚠️ A Florham Park police officer faced aggravated assault and stalking charges.
➡️ The woman told police Dietz choked her until she blacked out.
🔴 The officer denied the allegations — charges were ultimately dropped.
A Morris County man who has served for years as a municipal police officer was accused of stalking and violently choking a woman after she rejected his romantic advances.
Florham Park officer Gregory M. Dietz was arrested on July 20 after the Roseland resident reported the incident to police.
The 34-year-old Dietz, who lives in Flanders, was then charged with second-degree aggravated assault and fourth-degree stalking.
Dietz was released four days after his arrest, when the prosecutor’s request for pretrial detention was denied.
He has vigorously denied the allegations through his defense attorney in a statement received below.
After initial reports of the case, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office confirmed that the charges were dropped on Tuesday, due to lack of sufficient evidence.
Woman says NJ officer showed up after she cut off contact
Investigators said that the woman first met Dietz in June 2025.
They became friends, according to the woman, who said she received multiple “inappropriate text messages” from Dietz.
Over a year later, on July 5, the woman told Dietz not to contact her ever again, and blocked him on her social media accounts, including Instagram and Messenger.
She said Dietz then snuck into the building she lived in without having an access card and knocked on her door.
The woman said she let him in to “completely end” the friendship and as Dietz tried to kiss her, she said she turned away.
Dietz was then accused of slapping the woman and strangling her, with both his hands around her neck, until she “blacked out.”
Police documented hand marks and bruising on the victim’s neck when she visited officers, days later.
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Florham Park police officer's employment status unclear
Dietz was first sworn in as a probationary police officer in 2019.
His salary has since increased to $103,067 as of last year, according to public records.
Dietz was suspended without pay since his arrest, Florham Park Police Chief Karl E. Svenningsen said on Sept. 11.
Court records show that on Aug. 24, the case had been referred to a grand jury.
“My client unequivocally and vehemently denies these allegations. The accuser’s account is a fabrication; a series of malicious and demonstrably false claims. We are certain that the truth will be fully exposed when Mr. Dietz has his day in court,” defense attorney Marco A. Laracca said in a written statement to New Jersey 101.5 on Sept. 9.
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