A Toms River police officer accused earlier this year of breaking into her former boyfriend’s home pleaded guilty Monday and will now forfeit her position with the department, authorities said.

Rebecca Sayegh , 32, of Toms River, pleaded guilty to burglary, criminal mischief and simple assault, according to a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.

Sayegh once lived in the home with her former boyfriend, whom she dated for five years, according to her attorney Terrance Turnbach.

She was off-duty when she used a baton to smash the front door glass and enter the home in the Bayville section of Berkeley on April 25 at about 11:20 p.m. as her former boyfriend and his new girlfriend sat in the living room, according to prosecutors.

Sayegh began arguing with the pair after en

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