Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Herneto Garcia

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 30 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a)(6) a Public Employee. (a)(12) . D7: Violation of Administrative procedures an/or regulations involving safety and security. E1: Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order, or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending: No

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

In September 2023, Senior Correctional Police Officer Herneto Garcia was stopped by Rockaway Township Police and read his Miranda rights as a suspect in the theft of a cellphone. An investigation found that Garcia, while on detail duty, mishandled contraband cellphones and CDs that were not confiscated from incarcerated persons as policy required but were instead thrown out or sold for profit. Garcia also failed to report his interaction with the police and signed a settlement agreement on 1/17/24.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

In September of 2023, Officer Garcia was stopped by Rockaway Township Police and subsequently given his Miranda Rights as he was a suspect in the theft of a cellphone. A subsequent investigation revealed that Officer Garcia was on detail duty and he mishandled contraband - specifically cellphones and CDs. These items were not confiscated from the Incarcerated Persons as per NJDOC policy and was instead either thrown out or sold for profit. In addition, Officer Garcia failed to report his interaction with the Rockaway Township Police Department as per NJDOC Policy. Officer Garcia signed a settlement agreement on this matter on January 17, 2024.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $114,697
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 16 years, 10 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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1300. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213209, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩