NEW CITY, N.Y. — A former Rockland County corrections officer has been sentenced to two years in the Rockland County Jail after being found in violation of probation, according to the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office.
John Kezek, 40, of Anderson County, Tennessee, was sentenced Feb. 13, 2026, by Rockland County Court Judge Robert J. Prisco to two consecutive one-year terms in the county jail.
Kezek had been serving five years of probation following a Dec. 22, 2021 guilty plea to Tampering with Public Records in the First Degree. He was also awaiting sentencing in connection with an April 2023 guilty plea to Unlawful Imprisonment in the First Degree and Forcible Touching.
According to prosecutors, the earlier cases involved allegations that Kezek sexually harassed inmates at the Rockland County Correctional Facility and falsified jail log entries regarding his activities as a corrections officer with the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office during 2019. The charges also included offenses against a separate female.
In October 2025, while on probation, Kezek was accused in Tennessee of falsifying drug test results after allegedly ingesting CBD gummies and purchasing urine. He had previously been arrested and convicted in Tennessee for misdemeanor assault in July 2024. His probation supervision related to the 2021 conviction had been transferred to Tennessee in late 2024.
As a result of the new arrest, prosecutors recommended a state prison sentence of one to three years for violating probation on the tampering conviction, as well as a sentence of one to three years for the unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching charges. The court instead imposed one year for each felony charge, to run consecutively, for a total of two years in the county jail.
District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh II said violations of probation are treated seriously by his office and that consequences are necessary when court orders are not followed.
The case was investigated by the District Attorney’s Office Special Investigations Unit and Special Victims Unit and prosecuted by First Assistant District Attorney Kathleen Devlin.
