The Ocean County According to prosecutors, a Mays Landing woman entered a guilty plea to theft and obstruction of justice in relation to a plot to embezzle money from a Waretown senior care facility and then try to postpone legal proceedings by presenting false medical records.
Michael T. Nolan Jr., first assistant Ocean County prosecutor, reported that Alicia Campbell, 37, pled guilty before Superior Court Judge Kenneth T. Palmer on June 27. Prosecutors will ask for an 18-month concurrent sentence for obstruction and a six-year term in New Jersey State Prison for stealing at sentencing on September 5. Additionally, Campbell will have to reimburse the Greenbriar Oceanaire Community & Golf Course for almost $147,000.
According to an investigation conducted by the Ocean Township Police Department and the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Economic Crime Squad, Campbell took advantage of her position as Lifestyle Director of the Greenbriar Oceanaire community between January 2019 and January 2022 by using association funds to buy personal goods and sending money to third parties via Venmo who then gave it back to her.
She was first accused of several financial offenses in March 2023, and she was indicted in January 2024. Campbell regularly asked for court adjournments in the months that followed, stating that her child was having treatment for leukemia in Philadelphia and then Texas. She backed up her assertions with documentation allegedly from Texas Children’s Hospital physicians.
When the provided paperwork had inaccurate hospital information, investigators became suspicious. Subsequent research showed that Campbell’s child was never treated at the clinic and that the documents were fake.
In October 2024, Campbell was charged with more felonies, such as making false statements, impersonating someone, and interfering with public documents. After being taken into custody at her residence in Mays Landing, she was subsequently set free by the bail reform legislation of New Jersey.