{"id":328720,"date":"2026-08-24T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328720\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:22:16","slug":"secaucus-police-lt-thomas-tj-malanka-jr-dies-2-months-after-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328720\/","title":{"rendered":"Secaucus Police Lt. Thomas &#8216;TJ&#8217; Malanka Jr. Dies 2 Months After Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Thomas \u201cTJ\u201d Malanka Jr., Secaucus PD badge No. 125, died around 1:50 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 24, the department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Malanka served with the Secaucus Police Department from 2002 until June 2026.\u00a0His assignments included patrol supervisor, platoon commander, and extra duty coordinator. Malanka also spent more than a decade as a member of the Hudson County Rapid Deployment Force, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Malanka is survived by his wife, children, mother, and father, retired Secaucus Police Capt. Thomas Malanka Sr., according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease keep Lieutenant Malanka\u2019s wife, children, mother and father (Retired Captain Thomas Malanka Sr.) in your prayers during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice  and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lt. Thomas \u201cTJ\u201d Malanka Jr., Secaucus PD badge No. 125, died around 1:50 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 24,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-328720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}