Middlesex County
October 9, 2017 - December 12, 2017
October 9, 2017, South Plainfield, NJ (Indictment/Accusation#: 17- 12-01157-A): Jack Terry was arrested for domestic violence - that Monique Thaxton was beaten at knife point and held hostage for a period of more than two hours, at a private school, while school was in session. Jack Terry was held at the Middlesex County jail in New Brunswick, New Jersey for 65 days, even though assistant prosecutor Keith Abrams and appointed counsel, Lindsay Gargano, obtained CCTV footage from the private school and discovered the that allegations of domestic violence were fabricated and totally false.
However, Terry was not released. He was held in custody for the purpose of meeting with Homeland Security. Between November 12 and December 12, 2017, two men visited at the Middlesex county jail who introduced themselves to Terry as homeland security agents. They expressed an interest in entering into a cooperation agreement with Terry as a free radical paid informant to locate domestic terrorist and/or identify situations or circumstances indicating an intent or plan to commit random acts of violence (situational awareness). They believed the CFS method which located a sex offender fugitive from Chicago in Canada could also be used to locate domestic terrorist.
Terry agreed to help only because he was in jail. The allegations carried as much as life in prison or a minimum of eight years, but in any case it meant Terry would spend a very long time behind bars because Monique Thaxton had made herself unavailable as a victim–witness. Terry was presented with a sheet of paper to sign. He was not shown an actual written cooperation agreement, nor did the agents review terms of an agreement in written form. In the meeting, only his signature was obtained.
Before pleading guilty, assistant prosecutor required Terry to undergo a psyche evaluation to determine if he was competent to stand trial. The psychiatrist determined that Terry, being a criminal law paralegal, was more than competent to aid and assist his attorney in defense against criminal charges. The real question would be why would a psyche evaluation be required for a guilty plea?
On December 12, 2017, Terry pled guilty to terroristic threats and was released from custody pending sentencing to a period of five years probation. By February 2018, Terry violated the cooperation agreement by not cooperating with the homeland security agents. After extradition from Phoenix, Arizona, Terry was sentenced to serve nine months in the Middlesex county jail, on May 10, 2019,
In sum, Terry was:
arrested for a crime he did not commit
met by two men who claimed to be Homeland Security agents but were not
these two men obtained Terry’s signature
Terry serves an additional nine months for a crime he did not commit or for violating the cooperation agreement by failing to cooperate. Proof of there being a cooperation agreement is via the court transcript of the plea colloquy and sentencing (Judge Diane Pincus).
The fact that he was arrested for a crime he did not commit on October 9, 2017, which opened the door to the signing of a so‑called “phantom” paid informant cooperation agreement with men who impersonated Homeland Security agents, and the consequences of that meeting—most notably ongoing human trafficking concerns—remain present at the time of this posting. The two‑year statute of limitations to bring a civil action under Title 42, section 1983, challenging the October 9, 2017 arrest and the resulting illegal conviction and attendant consequences has not tolled.