Paterek first joined the Old Bridge Township Police Department as an auxiliary officer in 2015, serving until 2020. He then became a Class 1 special law enforcement officer, and in November 2022 ...

OLD BRIDGE - Funeral services will be held June 28 for a township police officer who died unexpectedly at his Monroe Township home this week. Andrew Paterek, 32, died June 23.

Portland Police Bureau Officer Andrew Young shot and killed Nicholas Thorn, 28, Oct. 4. A Multnomah County grand jury cleared him of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting.