Caminiti v. Board of Trustees, Police and Firemen’s Retirement System, A-1994-10T2; Appellate Division; opinion by Fuentes, P.J.A.D.; decided and approved for publication May 30, 2013. On appeal from the Board of Trustees of the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System, Department of Treasury, PFRS No. 3-10-30333. DDS No. 25-2-0123 [32 pp.]

While Essex County Sheriff’s Officer Frank Caminiti was attempting to take into custody a man armed with a tire iron who was threatening a police officer, a hypodermic needle in the man’s pocket pierced his middle finger from the bottom through to the nail. The man was an admitted drug addict.