{"active":false,"first_name":"Ivan","last_name":"Villanueva","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"DT2","command":{"command":"MELD","assignment_date":"2025-02-27","id":"MELD"},"shield_no":4982,"ended_date":"2026-03-02","taxid":"947581","complaint_ids":[202103888,201902125,201007323,201005859],"command_history":[{"command":"PSA 9 VIPER","id":"885"},{"command":"DB CEIS","id":"94"},{"command":"QS IRT"},{"command":"113 DET","id":"113det"},{"command":"102 DET","id":"102det"}],"appt_date":"2008-07-08","shield_no_history":[5997],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Harris, Darrell vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-08-13","disposition_date":"2021-04-22","payout_amount":20000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"19CV04563","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Villanueva, Ivan","summary":"On or about December 19, 2018, plaintiff was arrested at the 113th Precinct for a burglary that took place on or about November 11, 2017 despite being nowhere near the premises at the time of the burglary.  Prior to any conviction, NYPD officer Botta, under the direction of Detective Ivan Villaneuva, took DNA from plaintiff in violation of the NYS DNA Database Law. Plaintiff was arrested because his DNA was allegedly confirmed by Criminalists Steven Hand and Mike Yakoo of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as matching DNA from the crime scene; however, the DNA used had been corrupted. The NYPD prosecuted plaintiff despite knowing that he had a reputable alibi. Plaintiff's prosecution was part of a municipality implemented policy to prosecute African American males for burglary.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.437045/gov.uscourts.nyed.437045.17.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16029002/harris-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Hinds, Romaine vs Police Officer Villanueva, et al.","start_date":"2016-10-24","disposition_date":"2019-01-16","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"16CV02977","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Villanueva, Ivan","summary":"Plaintiff called police to report that his car window had been smashed and when Defendant Police Officers arrived they were rude, harassed him, refused to take a police report, and then told Plaintiff they were towing his vehicle. Plaintiff recorded the incident and called Internal Affairs who told him to go to the precinct. Plaintiff went to the 113th Precinct and nobody would explain the situation to him and IAB never got back to him.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5379030-Hinds-v-New-York-Police-Department"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.386531/gov.uscourts.nyed.386531.5.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4325552/hinds-v-new-york-police-department/"},{"name":"Wong, Rochel vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-06-09","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"006628/2016","court":"Supreme Court - Queens","officer_name":"Villanueva, Ivan","summary":"On July 25, 2015, Rochel Wong was lawfully present at or about 141-11 185th St, Queens, NY.  Defendant Police Officers Kyle Young, Ivan Villanueva, John and Jane Doe police officers knowingly intentionally, and willfully assaulted and battered Plaintiff without probable cause and not the result of an appropriate arrest. Plaintiff has suffered and will continue to suffer serious injuries in and about diverse parts of the person, great pain, distress, mental shock, mental anguish, and psychological trauma. Defendant police officers arrested and confined Plaintiff without probable cause, reasonable grounds, or an arrest warrant, resulting in serious permanent personal injuries along with humiliation, shame, indignity, damage to reputation and credit, and emotional and physical distress and injuries. Defendants caused emotional distress by creating and submitting an erroneous police report and initiating a bad-faith prosecution.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=r6e_PLUS_OW9149VStZLOtHfb9w==","type":"complaint"}]},{"officer_name":"Villanueva, Ivan","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2016-06-09","disposition_date":"2023-03-13","court":"Supreme Court - Queens","docket":"712139/2020","name":"Wong, Rochel vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":35000},{"name":"Morris, Peggy vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-05-12","disposition_date":"2016-09-30","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"14CV01749","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Villanueva, Ivan","summary":"On July 2011, Morris moved in with DS Clark and her husband Jason after DS Clark requested that Morris protect her and her family from ongoing threats of foreclosure eviction. Due to domestic difficulties and DS Clark’s mother’s refusal to babysit her 4 children, Morris became an in-house nanny and ended up developing a strong bond with their eldest and youngest children, Timiesha and Jayanna. Due to purported jealousy, DS Clark, on May 2013, prohibited the children from interacting with Morris. Thereafter, Jayanna would cry for Morris and escape their second floor apartment in an attempt to make her way to the attic. Fearing for her safety, on June 5, 2013, Morris filed an abuse complaint with the New York City Administration for Children Services (ACS). After the ACS complaint was filed, DS Clark and Jason attempted to evict Morris by means of physical assaults, threats of physical assault, intimidation, and larceny. DS Clark ultimately engaged the cooperation of family, tenants, friends, and the members of the 113th Precinct. On June 3, 2013, DS Clark chest bumped Morris while she was holding a plate of hot food – this caused a burn to her wrist. On June 5, 2013, Morris’s studio apartment door was kicked in. On August 2, 2013, Morris’s studio apartment was burglarized – her laptop was broken and her medication and legal documents were stolen. In each instance, Morris filed a complaint. One of the responding officers informed that DS Clark had called 911 and alleged that Morris had stolen checks from the New York City Department of Human Resources as well as her identity – Morris requested copies of the subject HRA checks, but DS Clark did not file one. On August 4, 2013, Morris appeared at the 113th Precinct and reported the June 3, 2013 incident to Officer Bradley who exclaimed that these were “bullshit complaints.” Morris protested the characterization of her complaints, and Officer Bradley consulted with Sergeant McCormick. Morris heard Sergeant McCormick yell that “[Bradley] had to get tough like everyone else and tell those people that [Bradley] was not going to waste one more piece of paper with these bullshit complaints.” Morris moved toward the room to once again protest the characterization of her complaints, but Sergeant McCormick then yelled to leave his area. On August 5th and 6th, Morris’s mother began to receive threatening calls from whom Morris, according to the phone number, believed to be Pierre. Morris brought a complaint to Detective Inspector Marmara, but to no result. On August 6, 2013, at about 7:00 pm, Pierre physically restrained Morris from leaving by blocking the stairwells whilst DS Clark and Jason made threats – Morris called 911, and only then did Pierre relent and let Morris pass, though the perpetrators followed her outside and continued to heckle her. At around 7:30 pm, Morris returned home to observe Jason and Pierre storming down the stairs from Morris’s premises. Pierre once again blocked herself to block access, and Morris was forced to call 911 once again. On August 14, 2013, Morris appeared at the 113th Precinct and asked to speak to Detective Inspector Marmara who referred Morris to the Queens County Criminal Court to request an Order of Protection (even though Morris was advised that she would not be granted an Order of Protection against a non-family member unless the target had been arrested); Detective Inspector Marmara also directed his Community Relations’ officers at the 113th Precinct to provide Morris with copies of Omniform System Complaints. On August 15, 2013, after being denied an Order of Protection, Morris returned to the 113th Precinct to deliver a handwritten letter addressed to Detective Inspector Marmara with case citations indicating that his officers were mishandling the complaints Morris had made. On August 16, 2013, Morris delivered another letter with another case citation suggesting that the allegations Morris made supported the arrest of the Clarks and Pierre. On or about August 17, 2013, Morris contacted Chief Banks directly. On or about 20, 2013, Chief Banks advised Morris that he had delegated someone to contact Morris, a contact that never occurred until after Morris’s false arrest on August 22, 2013. On August 20, 2013, at about 9:30 pm, Morris was jolted out of her sleep by a loud boom and her door ajar – Morris approached the door naked and unchained the lock and opened the door to see Jason standing outside and a TV lying just outside her door. Morris closed and chain locked the door again and went back to bed, but immediately thereafter, a person who sounded like Pierre was at Morris’s door threatening her, and someone was attempting to break the door down. When the door frame began to give way, Morris called 911. Officer Pena and his partner responded. By the time he arrived upstairs to speak to Morris, he had already been advised that Morris was mentally disturbed. In fact, the officers had already called for Emergency Medical Service responders – when the responders arrived, they questioned Morris and reviewed her medication and had to contain their laughter. By the time the officers arrived, the TV had been re-staged – Officer Pena returned to Morris’s premises and advised Morris that the Clarks accused her of throwing a television down from the 3rd floor at DS Clark, her son Daniel, and her best friend Murray. Officer Pena stated that he did not believe Morris threw the television, and advised Morris to go to landlord/tenant court – Officer Pena also advised the Clarks to do the same, and further stated that the Clarks informed him that landlord/tenant papers had already been filed. On or about August 21, 2013, officers, including Officer Martinez and Officer Clark, responded to the premises during which time Officer Martinez threatened to arrest Morris and in fact called Jamaica Hospital Medical Emergency Service and informed the responders that Morris was mentally disturbed. Officer Martinez attempted to detain Morris, so Morris left the scene and proceeded towards the local Fire Station several blocks away. Sergeant Greg Ostrowski apparently responded to the scene, and a number of officers began to follow Morris, saying that the Sergeant wanted to speak with her. Sergeant Ostrowski eventually returned Morris to her premises, but access was denied. An order to vacate the studio apartment was issued on August 21, 2013. On August 22, 2013, at about 6:00 pm, Morris called 911 and requested a police escort to accompany her to the premises so that she may retrieve her belongings. An escort arrived but left her alone at the premises. After a couple of hours, the police were called to the residence again, and Officers Skobla and Villaneuva responded. The two officers began reciting landlord/tenant law, but Morris corrected them. The officers took offense at this and began berating her. Morris then called 911 and requested that a sergeant be dispatched to the scene because of the inappropriate threats made by the two officers. Another officer, Officer Marcantonio was dispatched – Morris mistakenly believed he was a sergeant. Officer Macantonio stated that Morris would get all the names and badge numbers of the officers involved at the station. Officer Marcantonio then banged against the door where an order to vacate was posted and said something to the effect of “can’t you read, I am not playing with you, you’re under arrest.” Morris offered her arms up, but Officer Marcantonio then said that she was under arrest for throwing the television down the stairs – Morris expressed her confusion at this. Officer Marcantonio never properly gave Morris her Miranda Rights. Morris was brought into the car – during this process, she was continuously heckled. Another officer was asking DS Clark, her husband Jason, her mother, Tibsy Palmer, and her son Daniel a number of questions. Morris then overhead DS Clark assert that she purchased the television for Daniel when he was 3 years old, and that he played with it every day until Morris damaged it, and that she paid about $100 for the TV. In reality the TV was collecting dust in a corner and was to be discarded until it was used to stage the incident in question. At the station, Marcantonio handed Sergeant McCormick, who was on duty, some papers and laid out some of the charges he was alleging. Morris was then detained in a cold cell room area at the Stationhouse. On or about August 24, 2013, Morris discovered that DS Clark had filed a Holdover Petition using her maiden name. The Holdover was filed on August 6, 2013, but the attached Affidavits of Services alleged that Morris had been served with a 30-day Notice on June 30 -- Morris purchased a certified copy and soon realized that the contents of the Notice of Petition, Petition and Affidavits of Service had been falsified and were fraudulent.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23686805-2016_morris_14cv01749","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5675969/morris-v-marcantonio/"},{"name":"Scott, Marlow vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-01-08","disposition_date":"2014-07-30","payout_amount":17500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV00061","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Villanueva, Ivan","summary":"On October 11, 2012, the plaintiff was called by a member of her church, Sister Gordon. Sister Gordon asked plaintiff to assist her with her son who had threatened to harm himself. When plaintiff arrived to Sister Gordon's home, she saw that numerous other church members were there and were physically restraining Sister Gordon's son on the living room floor. Someone called the police department for their assistance with an emotionally disturbed person. Before the police arrived, the son had calmed down and was seated beside the plaintiff. When the defendant officers arrived, the son became agitated and begged the defendants to shoot him. The defendants then unjustifiably grabbed the plaintiff along with the son. During defendants' attempt to arrest the plaintiff, an officer punched him in the right temple and knocked him down. An officer handcuffed plaintiff and he was taken into custody, arrested and charged with assault, among other things. Plaintiff was treated the following day for neck and back injuries caused by the defendants. All charges were dismissed pursuant to an ACD.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.350983/gov.uscourts.nyed.350983.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13138753/scott-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"7PEP","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/7PEP"}