Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Adam-Paul Garcia

New Jersey State Police · 1 record · 2020

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
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In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
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Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Suspended 20 days

Rank as reported: Trooper
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Trooper Adam-Paul Garcia admitted to acting in an official capacity to the discredit of the New Jersey State Police while on duty and failing to maintain decorum. Garcia caused damage to a motorist's vehicle as it was driving through an accident scene. He received a 20 day suspension. The agency reported no separate list of sustained charges.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Member admitted to acting in an official capacity to the discredit of the Division while on-duty and failing to maintain decorum. The member caused damage to a motorist’s vehicle as it was driving through an accident scene.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $111,081
Pension fund: State Police Retirement System (SPRS)
Reported years of service: 12 years

How to read this

The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2935. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 252671, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩