By jennifer dome
Staff Writer
SAYREVILLE — A Middlesex County roads supervisor and former councilman was charged Tuesday with soliciting sex from a woman and her 7- and 10-year-old daughters via the Internet.
Alan W. Haag, 49, contacted what would turn out to be an undercover agent with the Pennsylvania attorney general’s task force working in the Internet Crimes Against Children unit and allegedly made arrangements to meet the fictitious woman at a CVS Pharmacy in Ridley, Pa. Haag is said to have offered her $300 to engage in sexual intercourse with the made-up woman and her daughters, according to information provided by the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office.
Haag, also a former Middlesex County freeholders director, was charged with numerous offenses, including two counts of criminal attempt to commit rape and two counts of criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.
The resident of Main Street in Sayreville was being held yesterday on $500,000 bail at the Delaware County Prison, with a hearing scheduled for June 2, according to the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office. Conditions of his bail, which has an option to post 10 percent, would include no contact with persons under 18 years of age.
Authorities apprehended Haag after he traveled to Pennsylvania in a white Dodge Durango issued by his employer, Middlesex County. According to an affidavit filed with the Delaware County District Court, Haag entered the CVS Pharmacy parking lot at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, entered the store, and upon his return, he covered the words "County of Middlesex" on his license plate frame with tape.
After reportedly making a phone call to the undercover agent from a pay phone located at the Nifty-Fifty’s restaurant across the street from the pharmacy, Haag was taken into custody.
Haag reportedly purchased a tube of K-Y lubricating jelly while in the CVS and had more than $300 in cash and a bag containing sex toys and condoms in his possession.
Haag, who earns an annual salary of $93,362, was suspended without pay on Tuesday, Middlesex County Administrator Walter DeAngelo said. Haag was hired to the roads supervisor position in 1998, DeAngelo said.
Officials with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said that "following forensics analyses on the home and office computers and a review of Mr. Haag’s statements, this office will then decide if there are independent New Jersey charges to be filed."
State Police Sgt. First Class Mark Weber, a unit leader with the state’s High Tech Crimes and Investigation Support Unit, said yesterday that the unit worked closely with the Delaware County authorities during the investigation. Following Haag’s arrest, the state police executed a search warrant and seized Haag’s home and work computers.
"We’ll try to obtain some information from e-mails and instant messages," Weber said.
According to the affidavit, Haag engaged in communication with the undercover agent, whom he contacted through Internet instant messages on the day of his arrest, using his computer at his workplace on Apple Orchard Road, New Brunswick.
As part of the undercover operation, the Pennsylvania attorney general’s task force creates screen names to conduct on-line investigations and to respond to complaints regarding the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet.
In this case, the undercover agent created a screen name that depicted an adult female with two preteen girls from the Philadelphia area.
On Tuesday, Haag allegedly contacted the undercover agent in an instant message and proceeded to offer $300 in exchange for sex with the three females, officials charged.
The undercover agent agreed to the meeting and provided a phone number to contact her when he arrived in Ridley.
Haag is married and has three children, the oldest of which is currently running for a county committee seat in Sayreville.
Haag served on the Sayreville Borough Council from 1986 until 1995, serving as council president in 1990. He also ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1991 against John McCormack.
He served on the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1994 to 1997. He was the board’s director in 1996.

