Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

John Meszaros

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2020

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Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Terminated

Rank as reported: Investigator
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)

The Department Of Corrections terminated Investigator John Meszaros in 2020. According to the record, Meszaros compromised an SID investigation. The agency did not report suspension or demotion, and it provided no further detail about how the investigation was compromised.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Compromised SID investigation

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $3,807.84
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $3,807.84
Final salary basis: $91,388
Retired: January 2023
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 22 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 2980. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 336182 (member 44308458), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩