{"active":false,"first_name":"Kevin","last_name":"Arias","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"DT2","command":{"command":"DBQS OP","id":"268"},"shield_no":152,"ended_date":"2019-01-02","taxid":"901132","complaint_ids":[200507858,200405226,200006662,200000925,9400772,9302171],"command_history":[{"command":"NARCBMS","id":"70"},{"command":"034 DET","id":"34det"}],"appt_date":"1992-06-30","lawsuits":[{"officer_name":"Arias, Kevin V.","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2019-06-25","court":"Supreme Court - Queens","docket":"709599/2019","name":"Salamon, Bassem vs City of New York, et al.","county":"['Queens']","summary":"On August 14, 2018,  at approximately 3:00 p.m., Plaintiff was  parking his vehicle when he was intentionally rammed into, head-on, by a large truck owned by the NYPD.\n\nThen, a unidentified NYPD Officer who was operating NYPD VI (\"V1 OFFICER\") exited his vehicle, drew his weapon, and began approaching Plaintiff. After, Police Officer Detective John P. SYLVESTRE arrived in a different vehicle, and approached Plaintiff's vehicle with his weapon drawn. They reached over Plaintiff's lap to unlatch his seatbelt and and forcefully removed Plaintiff from the vehicle and slammed him to the pavement. The Officers did not command Plaintiff to exit the vehicle.\n\nWhile Plaintiff was lying on the pavement, DET. SYLVESTRE and V1 OFFICER were kicking Plaintiff in the body, pressing Plaintiff's face into the pavement with their boots, and forcefully detaining him with handcuffs. Plaintiff and his car were illegally searched. They denied Plaintiff request for medical asistance to threat injuries from the collision. \n\nLater, Officer ARIAs and others arrived to the scene. After privately talking with DET. SYLVESTRE and V1, he arrested Plaintiff and transported him to 112 Precint. There, other OFFICERS  told Plaintiff \"he would be detained for three days if he continued to ask for medical treatment.\" Plaintiff was finally taken and discharged from the hospital, he remained unlawfully detained through the following morning.\n\nAt the Court, Plaintiff learned that he was being falsely charged with eight charges, including Resisting Arrest, Obstruction, and Fleeing Officer in Motor Vehicle, and Reckless Driving.\n\nPO ARIAS was the Arresting Officer, and he provided sworn deposition with false account of the circumstances\nsurrounding Plaintiff's arrest. Defendants failed to return to Plaintiff certain items of Plaintiff's personal property. Following the August 14, 2018 incident, members of the NYPD created a false MV-104 Police Accident Report.\n\nAll criminal charges filed against Plaintiff were thereafter dismissed.","incident_location":"Hospital / Health Clinic, Motor vehicle, Precinct, Street","allegations":["Excessive force/assault and battery","Failure to intervene","False arrest/False imprisonment","Indifference/Denial of medical care","Intentional infliction of emotional distress","Malicious prosecution","Unlawful stop and/or search"],"types_force":["Gun pointed (not fired)","Non-weapon physical force"],"defendant_types":["NYPD"],"documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=pMLlNEqIyZJ0G49A1PAdeQ==","type":"complaint"}],"payout_amount":0},{"name":"Herrera Amador, Marcos A., et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-11-07","disposition_date":"2024-08-15","payout_amount":685000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"16CV05915","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Arias, Kevin V.","summary":"The plaintiff was at a club when two men came in and robbed it causing a panic and people to run outside. The plaintiff was one of those individuals and when he tried to hail a cab officers approached him asking what was going on. In his broken English the plaintiff tried to explain, but the defendant officers instead handcuffed him, used excessive force, searched him, and took him to the 110th precinct. At the precinct he was interrogated and then charged with armed robbery in the first degree and taken to Rikers Island. The plaintiff was in jail for nearly a year before being released and his charges dropped. He has psychiatric problems now due to the trauma.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923429-Herrera-Amador-et-al-v-City-of-New-York-et-al","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7079582/herrera-amador-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/93Q7-kevin-arias.jpg","id":"93Q7","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/93Q7"}