What is Gary Wasko's major discipline record at Mercer County Prosecutor's Office?

Gary Wasko has one major discipline record at Mercer County Prosecutor's Office in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Does Gary Wasko's record show a termination?

The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Gary Wasko at Mercer County Prosecutor's Office.

What is Gary Wasko's pension on record?

Gary Wasko's reported monthly pension allowance is $10,948.92, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Gary Wasko has 26 years, 3 months of reported service.

How large is Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, the department Gary Wasko worked for?

Mercer County Prosecutor's Office reported 65 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Gary Wasko individually.

How does Mercer County Prosecutor's Office score on this site's report card?

This site's report card places Mercer County Prosecutor's Office in the second-highest fifth of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Gary Wasko individually.

Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Gary Wasko

Mercer County Prosecutor's Office · 1 record · 2024

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

Captain Gary Wasko of the Mercer County Prosecutors Office was suspended for 6 days in 2024 under the standards of conduct governing alcoholic beverages and drugs. On August 20, 2024, Wasko was seen after work hours consuming an alcoholic beverage in a public establishment while unarmed, while wearing a Mercer County Prosecutor's Office uniform shirt, and then operating his county-issued vehicle.

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.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
Data is a yearly snapshot. Cases are not tracked across years, and major discipline appears only in the year it became final after all appeals.
In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

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Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 6 days

Rank as reported: Captain (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): Chapter III
Standards of Conduct 3:7.1 Alcoholic Beverages and Drugs
Separated while IA pending: not reported

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On August 20, 2024, Captain Gary Wasko was seen after work hours consuming an alcoholic beverage in a public establishment while unarmed, but while wearing a Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office uniform shirt and then operating his county issued vehicle.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $10,948.92
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $10,948.92
Final salary basis: $198,320
Retired: February 2025
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 26 years, 3 months

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.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

Sherika Salmon · Mercer County Prosecutor's Office · 2024
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Sustained charge(s): Chapter IX Discipline 9:2c = Neglect of Duty
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Michael DiBona · Allenhurst Police Department · 2024
Suspended 30 days
Sustained charge(s): Prohibited activity on duty.
same year · similar sanction outcome
William Reng · Asbury Park Police Department · 2024
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Sustained charge(s): Body Worn Camera Policy Violation
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Michael Vega · Atlantic City Police Department · 2024
Suspended 90 days
Sustained charge(s): Other Rule Violation; Prohibited Acts on-Duty & Other Rule Violation; Standards of Conduct
same year · similar sanction outcome
Warren Young · Atlantic City Police Department · 2024
Suspended (days not reported)
Sustained charge(s): Standards of Conduct / Obedience to Laws and Regulations / Other Criminal Violation - Domestic Violence
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Questions and answers

What is a summary of Gary Wasko's major discipline record?: Captain Gary Wasko of the Mercer County Prosecutors Office was suspended for 6 days in 2024 under the standards of conduct governing alcoholic beverages and drugs. On August 20, 2024, Wasko was seen after work hours consuming an alcoholic beverage in a public establishment while unarmed, while wearing a Mercer County Prosecutor's Office uniform shirt, and then operating his county-issued vehicle.
What is Gary Wasko's major discipline record at Mercer County Prosecutor's Office?: Gary Wasko has one major discipline record at Mercer County Prosecutor's Office in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Gary Wasko's record show a termination?: The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Gary Wasko at Mercer County Prosecutor's Office.
What is Gary Wasko's pension on record?: Gary Wasko's reported monthly pension allowance is $10,948.92, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Gary Wasko has 26 years, 3 months of reported service.
How large is Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, the department Gary Wasko worked for?: Mercer County Prosecutor's Office reported 65 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Gary Wasko individually.
How does Mercer County Prosecutor's Office score on this site's report card?: This site's report card places Mercer County Prosecutor's Office in the second-highest fifth of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Gary Wasko individually.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1147. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 363360 (member 44353457), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8386. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩