Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Corrections Officer Luis Mercado was terminated by the Atlantic County Public Safety Division of Adult Detention in 2020. The record states that Mercado used his position as a county correctional police officer to smuggle contraband into the facility and drop it at various locations within the jail for retrieval and use by an inmate or inmates. The agency listed no separate sustained charge.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Luis Mercado was terminated after using his position as a County Correctional Police Officer to smuggle contraband into the facility and drop it at various locations within the jail for retrieval and use by an inmate(s).
Compensation and pension
No confident pension match found. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2789. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩