Drug take-back program included a fraud presentation

The FY2025 report certifies a Pop-Up Mobile Drug Take Back Program at 3,561.77 expended, recipient Cranford Police Department, primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, funded and launched 03/14/2025. It says funding was mainly for police overtime to staff pop-up disposal locations at senior housing centers and outside retail pharmacies. Two payroll postings on account G-01-41-700-162-281 make the figure to the cent, 2,587.37 on 03/14/2025 and 974.40 on 05/09/2025. No vendor, container or disposal cost is part of it. The Police Department Overtime Activity report behind the 2,587.37 lists six Detective Bureau overtime shifts of 4.50 hours from 02/24/2025 to 02/28/2025, each with the reason OT OPIOID FUND. Two are marked Medicine Box Detail, two Prescription Med Drop Detail and two Fraud Presentation. At the handwritten rate of 92.72 an hour the two Fraud Presentation shifts come to 834.48. The 974.40 is pay for two employees on 05/09/2025. No record states what that work was. The shifts were worked before the 03/14/2025 launch date the report gives, which is the date the payroll posted. Drug take-back is a listed use. A fraud presentation is not among the uses Exhibit E lists.