A Newark police officer was arrested Friday, charged with a sex crime stemming from an incident with an Uber driver, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. The officer, Karon Bell, 23, of Newark, is charged with criminal sexual contact, said the prosecutor’s office in a press release on Saturday. On Dec. 11, a 36-year-old woman told Kearny police she was the victim of a sex crime while she was on shift as an Uber driver. She had never met the assailant before, she told investigators, but said he identified himself to her as a police officer. An investigation by the prosecutor’s of…