New York, NY —

Bergen County's prosecutor John Molinelli says New Jersey's state park police made significant errors in judgment last weekend in an altercation with members of the Ramapo Indian tribe. One tribe member was seriously wounded and a second is in police custody.

Molinelli told WNYC that his investigation indicates three New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection police officers were not in their jurisdiction on Saturday when they confronted a group of Ramapough tribe members riding ATVs in a remote part of the Ramapo Mountains.

43 year old Emil Mann was shot twice by one of the DEP officers. He remains in critical condition in Hackensack Hospital. DEP officers also arrested Mann's cousin Otis Mann for resisting arrest and aggravated assault. He is still being held in the Bergen County jail on 100,000 dollars bail.

A DEP spokesperson said four of the department's 100-member force have been placed on leave with pay pending an internal investigation and the outcome of the Prosecutor's probe.

The Ramapough tribe is recognized by both New York and New Jersey but has been turned down twice by the Federal government for tribal status.