Monmouth County prosecutor will return to Navy for 6 months

Monmouth County prosecutor will return to Navy for 6 months (via NJ.com)

FREEHOLD — Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni announced today he will be returning to active service for the U.S. Navy for the next six months. Gramiccioni will not be stepping down as prosecutor, but will turn over day-to-day…

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Gramiccioni Being Deployed to Afghanistan

Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni, a Navy Reserve JAG Lt. Commander, will be deployed to Afghanistan, according to a report on Middletown Patch.   He is to report for 9 month tour on active duty in August for combat zone training and will be sent overseas in September.

Gramiccioni joined the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office in February of 2011 as First Assistant Prosecutor after a 9 year stint in the U.S. Attorney’s Office where he was part of Chris Christie’s team of federal prosecutors. Word in the legal community was that Gramiccioni was Christie’s first choice to replace Luis Valentin as prosecutor in 2010, but the Wall Township resident was 18 months short of the residency requirement.  Long time 1st Assistant Prosecutor Peter E. Warshaw, Jr was named prosecutor.  Once Gramiccioni met the residency requirements to be prosecutor, Warshaw was nominated to the Superior Court Bench and Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa appointed Gramiccioni Acting Prosecutor pending confirmation of his nomination by the State Senate.

In Afghanistan Gramiccioni will be assisting with setting up legal procedures and helping to establish a Western-like judicial system for detainees. He told Patch that he will monitor events at the office from the war zone, but that Richard E. Incremona, first assistant prosecutor and Kevin Clark, deputy first assistant prosecutor, would be running the day-to-day operation of the office.

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