Crime & Safety
Off-Duty State Cop Charged In 100-Mph Encounter That Left Motorcyclist Dead
Campagna has been on the state police force since at least 2010 and earns almost $115,000 per year, according to state payroll records.
June 5, 2025
A state grand jury has indicted a New Jersey State Police detective in the June 2023 death of a New York motorcyclist, the Office of the Attorney General announced Tuesday.
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Detective Mark Campagna is charged with endangering another person, a fourth-degree crime carrying a maximum jail term of 18 months and up to $10,000 in fines, over the death of Astoria resident Omar Kebbabi.
Prosecutors said the investigation into Kebbabi’s June 20, 2023, death showed Campagna, then off-duty, followed the motorcyclist for three miles through multiple lane changes at speeds sometimes exceeding 100 mph before Kebbabi crashed into a civilian’s oncoming car on Route 206 in Springfield in Burlington County.
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At no point did the detective engage his unmarked police vehicle’s lights or sirens, prosecutors said. Kebbabi, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene.
“The grand jury returned a charge that holds the defendant accountable for conduct that endangered Mr. Kebbabi, fellow officers, and every motorist on the road that day,” said Attorney General Matt Platkin.
An attorney for Campagna declined to comment.
Under New Jersey law, the attorney general’s office is required to investigate deaths that happen during encounters with law enforcement, and it must present those findings to a grand jury, which decides whether to lodge criminal charges.
Though police are typically involved in at least some traffic fatalities under a variety of circumstances each year, it is rare for those incidents to result in criminal charges.
Campagna has been on the state police force since at least 2010 and makes almost $115,000 a year, state payroll records show.
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