Arrested county official
resigns from his position
By jennifer dome
Staff Writer
SAYREVILLE — Alan W. Haag, who was charged with soliciting sex from a woman and her young daughters last month, has resigned from his position as Middlesex County roads supervisor.
His successor is David Campion, now working as the acting county roads supervisor, according to authorities with the county road department.
Haag, formerly a county freeholder and Sayreville councilman, had been suspended without pay from his $93,362-a-year job immediately following his arrest May 27.
Haag had reportedly used a county vehicle and county computers during his communication and meeting with the fictitious woman he is said to have contacted on the Internet and arranged to have sex with. Haag is charged with offering to pay the woman, who was actually an undercover agent with the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, $300 to have sex with her and her fictitious daughters.
Haag, 49, was picked up at a CVS Pharmacy in Ridley, Pa., where he expected to meet the woman, according to information provided by the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office.
Haag, who at one time was the Middlesex County freeholders director, faces 20 criminal charges, including two counts each of criminal attempt to commit rape, criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, criminal attempt to commit indecent assault, and criminal attempt to commit corruption of minors.
The resident of Main Street in Sayreville was released from a Delaware County Prison after posting 10 percent of $500,000 bail. Conditions of his bail include having no contact with persons under 18 years of age.
A preliminary court hearing initially scheduled for June 2 has been postponed until July 21, officials in Delaware County District Court said.
As part of the undercover operation, the Pennsylvania attorney general’s task force on Internet sex crimes creates screen names to conduct online investigations and to respond to complaints regarding the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet.
In this case, Michele Deery, the undercover agent, created a screen name that depicted an adult female with two preteen girls from the Philadelphia area. Haag allegedly contacted her using his computer at his workplace at the county offices on Apple Orchard Road, New Brunswick.
Haag then drove to Pennsylvania in a white Dodge Durango issued by Middlesex County, according to an affidavit filed with the Delaware County District Court.
After calling the undercover agent from a phone located at a restaurant across the street from the pharmacy, Haag was arrested.
Following his arrest, New Jersey State Police executed a search warrant and seized Haag’s home and work computers.
Haag is married and has three children. He served on the Sayreville Borough Council from 1986 until 1995, and was 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.