Jed D. Phykitt
Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced the arrest of 58-year-old JED D. PHYKITT of Dalton, MN, formerly of Washington Township, NJ, on charges of sexual assault. The arrest was the result of an investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit under the direction of Chief Matthew Finck.
On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, the Westwood Police Department contacted the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit regarding alleged incidents of sexual assault that had occurred years ago. An investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit revealed that JED D. PHYKITT sexually assaulted a child in Hillsdale, Washington Township, and Westwood, NJ on multiple occasions, between 1990 and 1991, when the child was between the ages of thirteen and sixteen.
As a result of the months-long investigation, on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, JED D. PHYKITT was charged with five counts of second-degree sexual assault, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2c(4). On Thursday, February 6, 2025, with the assistance of the Otter Tail County (MN) Sheriff’s Department, detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit located and arrested JED D. PHYKITT in Dalton, MN. PHYKITT was taken into custody and remanded to the Otter Tail County Jail in Fergus Falls, MN, pending extradition to Bergen County, NJ.
Prosecutor Musella states that the charges are merely accusations, and that the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. He would like to thank the Otter Tail County (MN) Sheriff’s Department, Hillsdale, Park Ridge, Washington Township, and Westwood Police Departments for their assistance in this investigation.