{"active":false,"first_name":"Luis","last_name":"Angeles","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"NARCBBX","assignment_date":"2016-03-14"},"shield_no":168,"ended_date":"2026-05-01","taxid":"932260","complaint_ids":[202203022,201606865,201402328,200811082,200802868,200704618],"command_history":[{"command":"042 PCT","id":"42pct"}],"appt_date":"2003-07-01","middle_initial":"R","shield_no_history":[14803],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Colon, Juan vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2022-12-08","disposition_date":"2023-12-19","payout_amount":82500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"818397/2022E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","summary":"On April 21st, 2022, Detectives Luis Angeles, Claude Mede, and POs John Doe and John Roe stopped, searched, assaulted, battered and detained Plaintiff in an aggressive and excessive manner, due to racial profiling. After his arrest, Plaintiff was falsely and maliciously prosecuted with committing a crime. As a result of the incident, Plaintiff sustianed severe and permanent bodily injuries.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=zUkY_PLUS_1EdEpmvXlDIi5ndQg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Colon, Juan vs City of Ny","start_date":"2022-12-08","disposition_date":"2023-04-12","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Administrative Closing","docket":"816542/2022","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx"},{"name":"Hodge, Glenda vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-02-24","disposition_date":"2023-09-05","payout_amount":15000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"802327/2021E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","summary":"On or about May 1, 2019, Plaintiff, while inside 54 East 176th Street, was aggressively approached by Defendants, including NYPD Detectives Luis Angeles, David Camacho, and other NYPD officers, who violently grabbed and contorted Plaintiff’s arms behind her back and applied metal handcuffs to her wrists in an excessively tight fashion without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The Defendants then removed Plaintiff against her will to an NYPD precinct, where the Defendants fingerprinted, photographed and searched Plaintiff, while also subjecting her to various other indignities particular to unjust confinement.  The Defendants engaged in the fabrication of evidence in the form of their observations of Plaintiff’s commission of the acts. The prosecution was terminated in Plaintiff’s favor, when all adverse were unconditionally and outright dismissed, due to the lack of probable cause to believe that Plaintiff had committed a crime or that the prosecution would succeed.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240701081232/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=7wxkwRjFLsgm8Uj8hlk/NA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Collins, Carrie vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2020-07-02","disposition_date":"2025-06-19","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"026712/2020E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis R.","summary":"On April 28, 2018, plaintiff was lawfully inside of 2111 Southern Blvd, Bronx, and sleeping in the bedroom. The night before, two other individuals who were arrested and charged slept in the living room of the apartment. Defendant police officers, without any search warrant, illegally broke the door and entered plaintiff's bedroom, violently grabbing plaintiff and yanking her from the bed. Plaintiff's arms were violently twisted and she was handcuffed in an excessively tight fashion. It was alleged that contrabands were placed in a closet in the apartment by the two other individuals the night before, but plaintiff had no part in it and did not possess any contraband. Plaintiff was then arrested and transported to the 48th precinct, where she was strip-searched and detained. Plaintiff was subsequently charged with possessing drugs and firearms, but all charged were eventually terminated in her favor. As a result of defendants' actions, plaintiff sustained serious physical injuries and emotional trauma.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240818203834/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=BsIXUy5JWsnuXyKtlhODYQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"France, Cleament vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-12-09","disposition_date":"2022-07-15","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"19CV09881","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis R.","summary":"On October 19, 2017, plaintiff was arrested by P.O.s Fred Dorch, Luis Angeles, and William Rojas while at his house.  Upon arrest, plaintiff was taken outside, tightly handcuffed, and placed in a van.  Plaintiff asked for the officers to loosen the handcuffs because they were cutting into his wrists, but P.O. Rojas threatened to double-cuff plaintiff.  In the van, P.O. Angeles grabbed plaintiff by the neck and threw him to the floor face down.  P.O.s Rojas and Angeles began punching and kicking plaintiff.  P.O. Dorch appeared and observed as P.O. Rojas pulled plaintiff's pants and underwear down, grabbed plaintiff's buttocks, and inserted his hand up plaintiff's anus and rectum as P.O. Angeles held plaintiff down.  Plaintiff did not have any foreign materials hidden in his body, but the officers falsely alleged that they found narcotics.  At the police station, plaintiff requested medial attention, but was denied.  The narcotics charge was dismissed in both state and federal courts.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.525306/gov.uscourts.nysd.525306.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16384897/france-v-dorch/"},{"name":"Moss, Erick, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-07-18","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"028059/2019E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis R."},{"name":"Murray, Kendell vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-06-13","disposition_date":"2020-05-19","payout_amount":50000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"026395/2019E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis R.","summary":"On April 14, 2017 in the vicinity of Ogden Avenue and West 165th St. in the Bronx, Defendant Officers, without probable cause, stopped, questioned, searched, and arrested Plaintiff by making false accusations. All charges against Plaintiff were dismissed on August 29, 2018.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=TOHDNdUB6Z5klo6q6Mhc8g==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Soto, Tyrone, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2018-05-15","disposition_date":"2019-10-03","payout_amount":60000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"024197/2018E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis R.","summary":"On February 10, 2017, plaintiffs Soto and Mazzella  were approached by defendant-NYPD officers, including Officer Luis Angeles (Shield No. 14803). At the time, the defendants were working for the NYPD's Bronx Narcotics division. Defendants initiated the encounter with plaintiffs, without having probable cause or reasonable suspicion of any crime. Plaintiffs were subsequently stopped, questioned, and frisked by the defendants, without probable cause or reasonable suspicion. Subsequently, defendants violently arrested plaintiffs, brought plaintiffs into custody, and subjected plaintiffs to strip searches. Defendants falsely supplied information to substantiate claims. Defendants' actions led to plaintiffs being held for over 24 hours in detention, arraigned on false charges, and being subject to numerous court appearances. All charges against plaintiffs were terminated in favor of the plaintiffs.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=89LDD46J181B82YHpIWWnA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Melendez, Jose vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2018-05-09","disposition_date":"2019-06-19","payout_amount":20000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"021461/2018E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis R.","summary":"On September 24, 2014, Jose Melendez (\"Plaintiff\") was lawfully present in the Bronx, when he was unlawfully approached and detained by several NYPD Officers, including Police Officers Anthony Burgos, Luis Angeles, John Doe, John Roe and Luis Linares (\"Defendants\"). The Defendants acted without any arrest warrant, probable cause, or legal justification. They subjected the Plaintiff to an unlawful stop, search, and detainment, during which he was assaulted, battered, handcuffed, and strip-searched in an excessively aggressive manner with excessive force. These actions were based on fraudulent claims and misrepresentations. \n\nFollowing his arrest, Melendez remained incarcerated for over 24 hours and was compelled to make multiple court appearances until the charges were favorably dismissed on November 30, 2016. The Defendants misconduct caused the Plaintiff serious injuries and their actions were reckless, intentional, and grossly negligent. The Defendants actions were motivated\nby an ulterior purpose to do harm (motivated by racial profiling when they stopped and frisked), without justification or economic or social excuse. The Plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated due to the excessive use of force. The Plaintiff was ultimately falsely accused of a crime and maliciously prosecuted. \n\nThe City of NY and NYPD were negligent in the careless\nand reckless hiring, retaining, training, monitoring, retraining, supervising and promoting its employees. The Defendants were not qualified (or even screened adequately) to be hired or retained or promoted as police officers. They lacked the experience, skill, training and ability to be employed, retained and utilized in the manner that each was employed. NYPD'S policies and/or deliberate indifference to practices which involve the excessive use of\nforce, false arrest, police cover-ups, witness intimidation, malicious prosecution, illegal stop, questions and frisks, strip searches, Fourth Amendment violations, and deliberate indifference to the need to train,\nsupervise, monitor, investigate and discipline, including suspension, dismissal and/or reassignment offending police officers. The practice is widespread and pervasive throughout the entire City of New York. The City of NY and NYPD knew or should have known of the customs and police practices of its officers","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/save/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=TzLZY1J4zXzr04FBgukwCg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Hicks, Kenny vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-08-25","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"024078/2017E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis","summary":"On May 23, 2015 at Fulton Ave and E. 169th St, Bronx, NY, Plaintiff was stopped, searched and arrested by Defendants. Plaintiff was charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance. Defendants falsified evidenced and commenced a prosecution against Plaintiff for the aforesaid charge. Defendants’ acts caused Plaintiff to be incarcerated for a period in excess of twenty-five hours, and make numerous appearances in court to defend himself against the charges.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=JCCiiL7rjNGjYQ9AvhiMVg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Draganov, Chandra, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-02-17","disposition_date":"2018-10-24","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"028036/2016E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis R.","summary":"On or about May 23 ,2015 at or near Fulton Avenue and East 169th Street at approximately 9:50 a.m. Plaintiff was wrongfully stopped, searched, seized, detained, and arrested by POs Luis Angeles, Luis Antonio, and Luis A. Linares. Plaintiff was tightly handcuffed and POs refused her requests to loosen them, resulting in significant, severe, painful, and permanent physical and personal injuries. Plaintiff was wrongfully charged with sale and possession of a controlled substance. POs commenced a malicious prosecution against Plaintiff, and Plaintiff was compelled to make numerous appearances in court to defend herself against the wrongful charges. Plaintiff was ultimately incarcerated for over 48 hours before her release. As a result of this incident Plaintiff suffered permanent personal injuries, mental and physical anguish, humiliation, embarrassment.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=pd5izJpQhr2NXc829llzoQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Lopez, Eliezer vs City of New York et al.","start_date":"2016-12-19","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"17CV00181","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis R.","summary":"On December 7, 2015, plaintiff Eliezer Lopez was in Crotona Park with another individual when 6 individuals began to chase them. These individuals were defendant NYPD officers, but they were dressed in plain clothes and did not identify themselves to plaintiff or his companion. Defendants Linares and Angeles caught up to plaintiff and apprehended him, forcing him against a 3-foot tall railing. When plaintiff protested that he did not know the officers were police, which is why he ran, one of the two officers pushed plaintiff over the railing, causing him to fall 15 feet to the street below, while the other officers did nothing to stop him. Defendants then moved and handcuffed plaintiff, which exacerbated his injuries. While he was eventually taken to a hospital for surgery, plaintiff suffered a severe spinal injury and is permanently paralyzed from the neck down.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.467372/gov.uscourts.nysd.467372.1.1.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7233475/laureano-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Dixon, Billy vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-08-10","disposition_date":"2017-04-06","payout_amount":10000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"16CV04060","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Angeles, Luis R.","summary":"Defendant Officers in plainclothes approached Plaintiff while he was walking down the street., threw him against a wall, searched him, found a straw and prescription meds, took him to the 42nd precinct, strip-searched him, and charged him with drug possession.  Charges were dismissed because lab came back no controlled substance.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.458219/gov.uscourts.nysd.458219.9.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4357200/dixon-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"}],"id":"3WSZ","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/3WSZ"}