A municipal court judge in New Jersey is facing ethics charges for trying to ease the punishment for a municipal official’s minor daughter who was caught in possession of alcohol.

Judge Antonio Inacio wrote to a Superior Court committee seeking special treatment for the girl, whose father, Louis Petruzzelli, is a councilman in Garwood, one of the three towns where Inacio sits, the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct says in a Dec. 3 complaint made public on Friday.