{"active":true,"first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Fontana","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"PO","command":{"command":"PBMSCRT","assignment_date":"2025-12-23","id":"771"},"shield_no":16274,"taxid":"951741","complaint_ids":[202600620,202412321,202404472,202107240,201907824,201809797,201312036,201311018,201209726],"command_history":[{"command":"PBBS","id":"PBBS"},{"command":"070 PCT","id":"70pct"}],"appt_date":"2012-01-09","age":38,"middle_initial":"A","lawsuits":[{"name":"Martinez, Nelvin vs City of Ny et al.","start_date":"2025-06-24","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"519797/2025","court":"Supreme Court - Kings"},{"name":"Faustin, Ricardo vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2023-10-19","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"518857/2023","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On June 28, 2020, while the plaintiff was lawfully present at a hospital, defendants NYPD officers, including Officer Leon Batson, Lieutenant Yael Magori, and Officer Marc Fontana, unlawfully searched and falsely arrested him without probable cause or legal justification. The defendants also unlawfully evicted the plaintiff from his apartment when they falsely arrested him and charged him with trespassing into an apartment. Additionally, the defendants unlawfully seized the plaintiff’s motor vehicle and conducted an unlawful search of the vehicle at the precinct. The officers falsely alleged that they recovered a firearm from the plaintiff’s apartment. Based upon incomplete, false, and misleading information, the plaintiff was maliciously prosecuted. All charges against the plaintiff were dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=jb9ZftxVoLBYHAmoZGB20w==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Simon, Steven vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2022-10-13","disposition_date":"2026-03-30","payout_amount":95000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"529222/2022","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On November 27, 2021, while the plaintiff was lawfully walking as a pedestrian, he was forcibly seized and detained by NYPD officers, including Adan Suazorodas, Larry Simpson, and Mark Fontana, without probable cause or reasonable suspicion to believe that the plaintiff had committed or was about to commit any crime or violation. Upon seizing the plaintiff, the officers conducted a forcible and invasive search without a warrant and without probable cause or reasonable suspicion. The officers also used excessive and unjustified force against the plaintiff, including grabbing and pulling his genitalia and forcibly slapping a cell phone from his hand.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=weWHxnYJorzzLzyYiYGxmw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Ederi, Avraham vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-01-04","disposition_date":"2024-07-31","payout_amount":67500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"525931/2020","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On August 28, 2019, Plaintiff was driving a rental car when he was involved in a serious car accident. Immediately after the accident he called 911 to report the accident and request medical assistance for the injuries he sustained. When PO Fontana and up to five unknown POs arrived, they determined that the license plate on the rental vehicle was \"fake\" and that the car was unregistered and/or uninsured. Plaintiff informed the POs that he was injured and required medical care, but they arrested him anyway for felony offenses related to the condition of the car, despite knowing that he was only renting it. They locked Plaintiff in the rear of the police vehicle and then lingered at the scene of the accident. When the POs returned to their vehicle, they realized that they had locked their keys inside and were unable to enter. Plaintiff was required to wait in the rear of the vehicle, windows closed on a hot day in August, while the POs called a service company to fix their error. \nWhen the POs finally regained entry, they transported Plaintiff to the precinct. Plaintiff told the POs that he needed urgent medical attention, but they ignored his pleas for several hours. He was brought to a medical center the following day while still in custody, after which he was returned to the precinct and arraigned. The charges against Plaintiff were dismissed on December 2, 2019.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=OoD25chIZ4Oq42v/GwLZxA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Locke, Lenworth Jr. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-12-21","disposition_date":"2017-08-18","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"16CV06825","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Fontana, Marc","summary":"Plaintiff was approached by Defendant Officers on the street, manhandled, assaulted and battered, physically thrown onto the hood of the police vehicle, and handcuffed in full view for a concocted and non-existent warrant for his arrest. Plaintiff was transported to the 70th Precinct and all charges were dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.394667.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4609886/locke-jr-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"discipline":[{"disposition_date":"2014-11-18","case_no":"2014-12379","penalty":"Training, vacation days (5 days)","charges":[{"desc":"On duty,  abused his authority as a member of the New York City Police Department, in that he frisked a person known to the Department without sufficient legal authority.","disposition":"Guilty"},{"desc":"On duty, he searched a vehicle in which person(s) known to the Department were occupants, without sufficient legal authority.","disposition":"Guilty"}]},{"disposition_date":"2014-08-29","case_no":"2014-12280","penalty":"Training, vacation days (5 days)","charges":[{"desc":"On duty, abused his authority as a member of the New York City Police Department, in that he searched a person known to the Department without sufficient legal authority.","disposition":"Guilty"},{"desc":"On duty, abused his authority as a member of the New York City Police Department, in that he stopped a person known to the Department without sufficient legal authority.","disposition":"Guilty"}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21023255-fontana-228f384bf1659447bfb35b075d5fa84a8141ed9f","type":"brady-giglio"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21057722-fontana-951741-02-22-21","type":"brady-giglio"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/6HQR-marc-fontana.jpg","payroll":{"salary":"109352","regular":"108510","overtime":"48493","other":"25078","total":"182081"},"media":[{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1kl13qr/nypd_pig_breaks_mans_phone_for_filming_him/","title":"Video: NYPD pig breaks mans phone for filming him","complaint_ids":[202107240],"officer_ids":["951741"],"type":"video"}],"id":"6HQR","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/6HQR"}