A former Rikers Island guard was convicted of felony charges after prosecutors say he planted a weapon inside the cell of a detainee he had recently beat up.
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 he recorded himself…