Kenilworth Superintendent Charged With Pooping On Holmdel Track

HOLMDEL, NJ — Who has been relieving themselves on an almost daily basis on the Holmdel High School athletic fields?

It turns out it was the superintendent of the Kenilworth school district, Thomas Tramaglini, allege Holmdel police.

All the Holmdel High School track team wanted to know was who was pooping either on or near the track and football field. Students and coaches said they would find human feces on an almost daily basis. The Holmdel school resource officer was alerted to the problem, and started quietly monitoring the area every morning.

UPDATE: Kenilworth Keeps Alleged 'Pooping Superintendent' On Paid Leave

"I don't know if it was daily, but it's been going on for a while. I heard it was at least eight times in the past few months," said someone within the Holmdel community, who wanted to stay anonymous.

Tramaglini, 42, a Matawan resident, was arrested and charged with the bizarre crime. He was charged with lewdness, littering and defecating in public. According to NJ.com he was arrested at 5:50 a.m. this past Monday, April 30. His home is only a few miles away from the high school.

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Tramaglini is the superintendent of the Kenilworth school district, and also lectures part time at Rutgers, in their graduate-level education classes. After his arrest, he requested he take a paid leave of absence from his $147,504-a-year job. Kenilworth schools announced the news on their Facebook page late Wednesday night.

"Earlier today, we learned of municipal court charges facing our current superintendent of schools in Holmdel, NJ," read the somber statement. "Given the nature of those charges, he asked for and was granted a paid leave of absence."

Before he was hired to oversee Kenilworth's schools, Tramaglini was the PreK-12 Chief Academic Officer of the Keansburg School District. He is also a part-time lecturer at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education. He started out as a middle school and high school teacher.

According to state law, a leave can only be unpaid if the superintendent is indicted, or faced with tenured charges. Brian Luciani, Kenilworth's director of academics, has been named as the acting superintendent of schools.

Tramaglini was due in Holmdel municipal court Monday morning, May 7 to answer to the charges, but that date has been pushed back and rescheduled, police told Patch. His case has been rescheduled to May 30 at 10:00 a.m.

Photo of Thomas Tramaglini from the Kenilworth school district.