{"active":true,"first_name":"Vincenzo","last_name":"Creta","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"WARRSEC","assignment_date":"2022-10-03","id":"118"},"shield_no":1540,"taxid":"962332","complaint_ids":[201807729],"command_history":[{"command":"075 PCT","id":"75pct"}],"appt_date":"2016-10-11","middle_initial":"G","shield_no_history":[19901],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Dean, Andrew vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2024-10-08","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"527004/2024","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On or about May 12, 2024, Plaintiff was legally operating his vehicle on the streets of Kings County to go home. When Plaintiff pulled up in front of his home, defendants, NYPD officers approached his car with their guns drawn. Plaintiff scared honked his car to alert his family. Plaintiff's father exited the house and then Plaintiff opened the car door and when he did the NYPD officers John and Jane Does, Dustin Diaz and Mark Whirl dragged him out of his car and physically assaulted him, causing injuries to his body and face and then arrested him. Plaintiff was also tasered and struck. Defendants hit plaintiff's head, pounded his head and body into the street. Plaintiff was also wrongfully arrested. The criminal charges were dismissed on August 12, 2024. Two defendants, NYPD officers Dustin Diaz and Mark Whirl gave conflicting accounts of what led to their decision to arrest the plaintiff, and based on this NYPD officers maliciously prosecuted the Plaintiff. There were also video recordings of the incident, and these videos undermined Defendants' account. The District Attorney of Kings County dismissed all of the criminal charges against Plaintiff on August 12, 2024.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=KhEN5qUcmAdqOAbh7j/HYg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Velez, Benjamin, et Al vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2023-06-15","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"517562/2023","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On July 5, 2019, at approximately 7:23 p.m. and continuing thereafter, in the vicinity of the intersection of Glenmore Avenue and Linwood Street in Brooklyn, Plaintiffs Benjamin Velez, and L.R. were caused to be injured in a motor vehicle accident and illegally stopped, seized, searched, battered, assaulted, detained, and arrested by or at the direction of Defendant John Doe-Police Officers, including Officer Freddy Cantillo, Officer Vincenzo Creta, Officer Christopher Hosein, Officer Patrick Jeanbaptiste and Officer Bobby Mohip. Plaintiff Benjamin Velez requested medical attention after the accident and Defendant Police Officers violently contorted him, put him in tight handcuffs, transported him to the 75th Precinct and failed to read him Miranda rights. After arraignment, Plaintiff Benjamin Velez was transported to Brookdale Hospital then transported against his will to Rikers Island Correctional Facility. \n\nPlaintiffs bring claims of: activity retaliation, violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, unlawful search and seizure, false arrest and imprisonment, assault and battery, excessive force, malicious abuse of process, denial of right to due process, violation of Victims of Violent Crime Protection Act, biased based profiling, denial of equal protection, failure to prevent conspiracy, failure to intervene, negligent hiring and retention, malicious prosecution and Monell.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=sMVFD59H2tL8oOeGuX2fvg==","type":"complaint"}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21057560-creta-962332-05-15-20","type":"brady-giglio"}],"payroll":{"salary":"119314","regular":"115072","overtime":"25724","other":"13789","total":"154585"},"id":"95TP","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/95TP"}