{"active":true,"first_name":"Christopher","last_name":"Cruz","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"DB CEIS","assignment_date":"2025-11-26","id":"94"},"shield_no":2652,"taxid":"932502","complaint_ids":[201803363,201409043,201410104],"command_history":[{"command":"MSS TF","id":"850"},{"command":"NARCBMN","id":"250"},{"command":"GANG M"},{"command":"GANG MN"}],"appt_date":"2003-07-01","shield_no_history":[22187],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Vargas, Jose vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2018-02-05","disposition_date":"2018-09-21","payout_amount":2500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"17CV10232","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Cruz, Christopher","summary":"While in a store, Defendant Officers used force to handcuff Plaintiff and searched the Plaintiff and then taken to the  33rd Precinct, Central Booking and then the Courthouse and then released.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.486115/gov.uscourts.nysd.486115.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7713015/vargas-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Crucey, Mark vs Detective Greco, Brian, et al.","start_date":"2017-12-13","disposition_date":"2019-06-26","payout_amount":60000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"159831/2017","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Cruz, Christopher","summary":"On December 1, 2016 at approximately 5:30 am, defendant Detective Brian Greco and unnamed defendant NYPD officers entered Plaintiff's residence at 65 Fort Washington Avenue in New York without warrant or probable cause, where Plaintiff was then searched, detained, and arrested with improper use of handcuffs by defendants and incarcerated until approximately December 13, 2016. The defendants initiated and continued Grand Jury criminal proceedings against Plaintiff without probable cause.  On or about December 12, 2016, the Special Narcotics Prosecutor dismissed the criminal proceedings against Plaintiff. The events resulted in embarrassment and humiliation, public disgrace, public harassment, mental and physical stress and personal injuries, including but not limited to bruises and abrasions of Plaintiff's wrists, as a result of which Plaintiff became sick, sore, lame and disabled.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=BCfxKqkhMMQTFSDzmZMPMw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Sierra, Jose vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-01-11","disposition_date":"2017-02-15","payout_amount":450,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV08773","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Cruz, Christopher","summary":"Defendant officer in plainclothes and with guns drawn ran up to Plaintiff, handcuffed, him and assaulted him. Plaintiff was taken to the 30th precinct, strip-searched, and charged with 220.16(1). Grand Jury voted no true bill.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4921557-Sierra-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.449723.31.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4921558-Sierra-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4356094/sierra-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"payroll":{"salary":"119980","regular":"115753","overtime":"87478","other":"25120","total":"228351"},"id":"8AFR","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/8AFR"}