Dionisio Rosario, a 34-year-old from Wantagh, New York, was found guilty of tampering with physical evidence, falsifying business records and official misconduct charges for attempting to plant a shard of glass in the cell of a man being held in the dangerous jail complex.
Rosario’s conviction was largely based on incriminating body-worn camera footage of the incident, which he recorded himself.
Prosecutors with the Bronx district attorney’s office, which prosecutes alleged crimes perpetrated on Rikers Island, say that the incident unfolded in 2023 when Rosario was working in the Robert N. Davoren Center…