{"active":true,"first_name":"Luis","last_name":"Linares","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"SGT","command":{"command":"WARRSEC","assignment_date":"2026-04-17","id":"118"},"shield_no":2981,"taxid":"938861","complaint_ids":[202201735,201603270,201503084,201412241,201411119,201410072,201404661,201201633,201111566,201110932,200911679,200808678,200714250,200610558],"command_history":[{"command":"PBQN","id":"PBQN"},{"command":"DET BUR","id":"245"},{"command":"PBBX","id":"PBBX"},{"command":"PBMN SU PST"},{"command":"042 DET","id":"42det"},{"command":"040 PCT","id":"40pct"},{"command":"042 PCT","id":"42pct"},{"command":"033 PCT","id":"33pct"}],"appt_date":"2005-07-11","middle_initial":"A","shield_no_history":[27482,24576,2524],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Stanley, Jalen vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2025-04-01","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"807266/2025E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx"},{"name":"Robinson, Hunter vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2024-04-18","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"451150/2024","court":"Supreme Court - New York","summary":"On January 20, 2023, Plaintiff, then 17 years old, was lawfully in the vicinity of the Lincoln Houses complex in Harlem when he was unlawfully detained, searched, and arrested by NYPD officers Bryan Wilson, Luis Linares, Matthew Ornstein, Shahzeb Ahmed, and other unidentified officers. The arrest occurred after Plaintiff merely \"locked eyes\" with one of the officers and turned away while walking home. Following the arrest, Plaintiff was detained at the 25th Precinct and later at Central Booking. The officers involved provided false testimony and evidence to justify the arrest, leading to Plaintiff’s prosecution in a case against Plaintiff. As a result of the prosecution, Plaintiff was forced to wear an ankle monitor from May 2023 through February 2024 and was subjected to additional restrictions. The charges were eventually dismissed on February 5, 2024, after the judge found the stop and pursuit of Plaintiff to be unlawful.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240821143846/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=Ub54bVdLr7B/B_PLUS_jvGoKKMg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Gadsden, Rico vs Cit of New York, et al.","start_date":"2020-11-24","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"027848/2020E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Linares, Luis","summary":"On September 18, 2018, when the plaintiff reported to the 41st Precinct he was arrested and charged with menacing and possession of a knife stemming from an incident that allegedly occurred on September 11, 2018. The plaintiff was incarcerated for approximately four months. The charges were dismissed on July 8, 2019.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=WmjmWpGrcFPnxL2BRN7zlg==","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":"Linares, Luis","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":"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":"Linares, Luis","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":"Linares, Luis","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":"Soriano, Elizabeth vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-01-14","disposition_date":"2018-04-16","payout_amount":30000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"300024/2016","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Linares, Luis","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4928354-Soriano-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}]}],"discipline":[{"disposition_date":"2023-10-08","case_no":"2023-28012","penalty":"A - Command Discipline, vacation days (1 day)","recommendation":"Command Discipline - A","allegations":[{"desc":"Wrongfully discourteous to an individual known to the Department."}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"}],"payroll":{"salary":"118056","regular":"120402","overtime":"43530","other":"20274","total":"184206"},"id":"76W9","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/76W9"}