{"id":16787,"date":"2025-10-25T22:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16787\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:17:12","slug":"nj-cop-responding-to-gunshot-reports-stopped-to-get-cash-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16787\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ cop responding to gunshot reports stopped to get cash, pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First responders typically run toward danger \u2014 but a New Jersey cop allegedly hit an ATM and then a pizza parlor instead of responding to a 911 call about what turned out to be a double murder-suicide, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Township Police Sgt. Kevin Bollaro has been on administrative leave since Aug. 2, the day authorities found the bodies of veterinarian <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/05\/us-news\/nj-cop-who-killed-ex-girlfriend-beau-threatened-to-kill-himself-months-before-murder-suicide-victims-sisters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Semanchik<\/a>, 33, and her new boyfriend, volunteer firefighter Tyler Webb, 29, inside her home.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby, authorities found the remains of her 45-year-old ex, New Jersey State Police Lt. Ricardo Santos, who had killed himself.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Semanchik was killed, along with her boyfriend Tyler Webb, by her police officer ex. Facebook \/ Lauren Semanchik<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Kevin Bollaro\u2019s attorney said his client\u2019s actions on Aug. 1 wouldn\u2019t have changed the horrific outcome. Franklin Twp. School \u2013 Hunterdon \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Bollaro had been dispatched to investigate three 911 calls from Semanchik\u2019s concerned neighbors, but never actually went to the home, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Ren\u00e9e M. Robeson said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Bollaro \u201cfalsely stated in his report that he \u2018checked the area along Upper Kingtown Road again and was unable to locate the source of the shots,\u2019 and that he \u2018cleared the scene after approximately 20 minutes,&#8217;\u201d Robeson\u2019s office alleged of the Aug. 1 incident. <\/p>\n<p>Bollaro was outed by GPS data and surveillance footage that contradicted his account \u2014 and instead revealed his drive 1.5 miles in the opposite direction, to a TD Bank on Route 31 in Clinton Township, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>There, Bollaro took out some cash and headed for Duke\u2019s Pizzeria in Pittstown \u2014 during the period he claimed to be canvassing Semanchik\u2019s neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>While he did drive through the area, it was briefly, and on his way to the pizza parlor.<\/p>\n<p>Bollaro was later spotted socializing at the Pittstown Inn restaurant. <\/p>\n<p>Tyler Webb was a volunteer firefighter. Pinewald Pioneer Fire Co.<\/p>\n<p>Semanchik and Webb attended a concert together before their murders. Courtesy Webb Family<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGPS data also revealed that Bollaro spent approximately five consecutive hours of his duty shift \u2014 from approximately 11:27 PM until 4:33 AM \u2014 at Locust Grove Cemetery, during which no law enforcement activity was recorded by him,\u201d prosecutors contended.<\/p>\n<p>Bollaro has been charged with official misconduct and tampering with records.<\/p>\n<p>Semanchik had only started dating again when she was killed. GoFundMe<\/p>\n<p>His attorney, Charles J. Sciarra, issued a statement, reading, in part, \u201cnothing Kevin Bollaro did or did not do that day impacted or could have stopped\u201d the killings and \u201cthe evidence will show that there were delays in these 911 calls being made and dispatched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shooting calls, Sciarra said, are \u201ca regular occurrence in this community,\u201d and noted his client \u201chas faithfully served that community for nearly 25 years is not guilty of anything related to this horrendous killing. 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