A police sergeant arrested nearly seven years ago in a child sex sting later pleaded guilty and received probation, and last year was officially terminated from his job, documents show. Richard Conte, ...

Richard Conte, 53, was a Howell police officer for 21 years when state authorities charged him in September 2018 with trying to meet a 15-year-old girl for sex, in Toms River, while he was off duty.