{"active":false,"first_name":"Guillermo","last_name":"Gil","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"DT2","command":{"command":"NARCBMN","id":"250"},"shield_no":719,"ended_date":"2020-09-01","taxid":"917681","complaint_ids":[200000384,9701512],"command_history":[{"command":"040 PCT","id":"40pct"}],"appt_date":"1996-07-18","lawsuits":[{"name":"Ortiz, Victor vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-05-01","disposition_date":"2017-12-27","payout_amount":25001,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"17CV02920","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Gil, Guillermo","summary":"The defendants were carrying out a search warrant in the home of the plaintiff's mother. The plaintiff and his mother arrived to the apartment to the door ajar. Sgt. Tirado prevented them from entering and arrested the plaintiff's mother. Although the plaintiff and his mother requested to see the search warrant, it was never shown. The plaintiff began recording his mother's arrest until Detective Cote and Calloway shepherded him into a corner. The officers requested that the plaintiff leave the area while Detective Calloway jerked and twisted the plaintiff's arm that was holding his phone, pushed him to the ground, and arrested him. Plaintiff was proceeded at a precinct and charged with obstructing governmental administration in the second degree and resisting arrest. Plaintiff was tried before a jury and found not guilty.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.472962/gov.uscourts.nysd.472962.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6125769/ortiz-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Richardson, Robert vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-03-21","disposition_date":"2020-10-15","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Administrative Closing","docket":"162151/2015","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Gil, Guillermo","summary":"On November 29, 2012, at approximately 6:00 p.m., ROBERT RICHARDSON (“plaintiff”) was lawfully standing in the vicinity of Hamilton Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue, waiting for his girlfriend to come out of her apartment when police officers unlawfully approached, stopped, seized, and searched plaintiff, without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or any legal justification. Nevertheless, the defendant's police officers unlawfully handcuffed the plaintiff and arrested him without legal justification or probable cause. The police officer believe the plaintiff possessed any illegal drugs, weapons, or contraband underneath his clothing.\n\nThe defendant police officers forcibly transported the plaintiff, against his will, to the 30th precinct stationhouse, where the plaintiff was subjected to an unlawful strip search by the defendant police officers without reasonable suspicion or probable cause to believe the plaintiff had any illegal contraband hidden underneath his clothing. The plaintiff was forced to remove all his clothes and shake each piece of clothing out. The plaintiff was then forced to endure the indignity of turning around so that the back faced the police officers, bent over, and spread his buttocks to prove there was no illegal contraband in his person. The plaintiff was then ordered to face the defendant's police officers and was forced to lift his genitals. At no time did the defendant police officers recover any drugs, contraband, or other illegal paraphernalia from the plaintiff or his custody, possession, or control.\n\nAfter he was unlawfully strip-searched, the defendant police officers transported the plaintiff to the 25th Precinct stationhouse, where he was introduced to an individual named Michael Brown, who had been arrested for drug possession. Michael Brown told the defendant's police officers that he did not know the plaintiff and had never met him. Still, without any factual basis, the officers accused the plaintiff of selling drugs to Michael Brown, an individual that plaintiff had never seen or met in his life.\n\nThe police officers falsely informed the New York County District Attorney’s Office that the plaintiff had committed a crime despite knowing they lacked a legal and factual basis to link the plaintiff to a crime. The defendant officers had no basis to stop the plaintiff or to allege that the plaintiff committed a crime. \n\nOn November 30, 2012, at approximately 1:00 a.m., the defendant police officers transported the plaintiff from the 25th Precinct to Manhattan Central Booking, where he was unlawfully detained in filthy and crowded holding cells for many hours, with individuals accused of committing serious violent crimes. \n\nOn December 1, 2012 at approximately 11:00 a.m., plaintiff was arraigned in New York County Criminal Court, and the defendant officers falsely charged plaintiff with commiting several crimes the defendant officers lacked probable cause to allege he committed. At the arraignment, the plaintiff was remanded into the custody of the New York City Department of Correction and sent to Riker’s Island. Thereafter, the plaintiff was unlawfully detained on Riker’s Island for approximately 13 months and was forced to appear in Court on numerous occasions. On December 11, 2013, all charges against the plaintiff were terminated in his favor and were dismissed.\n\nThe plaintiff was the victim of a policy, practice, or custom within the New York City Police Department, wherein New York City Police Officers illegally strip search individuals without a specific, articulable factual basis supporting a reasonable suspicion or probable cause to believe the individual secreted contraband, evidence, or has a weapon inside a body cavity.\n\nThe individual defendants were acting under the color of state law in the course and scope of their duties and functions as officers of the New York City Police Department,","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=MbLqUf9lmKT6WesGsMciVA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Jeffries, Curtis vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-12-05","disposition_date":"2015-04-30","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV08194","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Gil, Guillermo","summary":"On January 28, 2013, Plaintiff was leaving his family's home in Manhattan when Defendant Officers Michael Calloway, Nicole Tirado, James South, Keith Cummings and Guillermo Gil in plainclothes stopped him stating that they were looking for a man with a gun and that he matched his description. Defendant Officer John Doe, without a warrant, probable cause or reasonable suspicion then illegally searched the Plaintiff and subsequently arrested the plaintiff for a sale of drugs knowing that Plaintiff had not taken part in any sort of drug sale. No contraband or weapons were found on the Plaintiff. At the precinct, Defendant Officer John Doe stripped searched the Plaintiff, including by inspecting the Plaintiff's genitals. Plaintiff was then falsely charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the 3rd degree and with criminal facilitation in the 4th degree. Defendant Officer Michael Calloway made a false statement to the Criminal Court, stating that undercover agents had related to him that Plaintiff was involved in a drug deal that took place in the lobby of his family's residence. As a result of these actions, the Plaintiff was held at the precinct for approximately 5 to 6 hours and subsequently held in custody at \"the Tombs\" for 3 days because he was unable to post bail.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920354-Jeffries-v-City-of-New-york-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.433675/gov.uscourts.nysd.433675.22.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13144843/jeffries-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Rosario, Robert Casilla, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-01-03","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"350423/2012","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Gil, Guillermo","summary":"On April 20, 2010, Sgt. Mark Siley, Det. Alex Munoz, Det. CHristine Sheren, Det. Artiles, Det. Gil, Det. Carui, Det. Sherman, Det. Alumez unlawfully entered Plaintiffs' apartment by breaking the door. POs grabbed Plaintiffs from their beds and cuffed their hands behind their backs with excessively tight handcuffs. POs had their firearms drawn and pointed at Plaintiffs throughout. Plaintiffs requested the handcuffs be loosened but their requests were ignored. POs illegally searched the apartment and did not find any contraband. However, they falsely claimed they found a firearm in Plaintiff Robert Casilla's bedroom. All other Plaintiffs were released but Plaintiff Casilla was taken to the 25th Precinct, where he was subjected to a strip search in front of other detainees. Plaintiff Casilla was subjected to a malicious prosecution and compelled to defend against the false charges until all were dismissed on or about November 23, 2010. Plaintiffs suffered personal and physical injuries, pain, suffering, fear, invasion of privacy, psychological pain, emotional distress, mental anguish, embarrassment, humiliation, and financial loss as a result of this incident.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=8PcpoeyR7VY0LdqPpgEYWg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"officer_name":"Gil, Guillermo","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2011-05-24","disposition_date":"2015-02-11","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","docket":"11CV03514","name":"Diaz, Lillian as Adm of The Estate of Maldonado, Edgardo vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":20000,"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4349115/maldonado-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"7QCZ","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/7QCZ"}