{"active":true,"first_name":"Stephen","last_name":"Hillmann","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"SGT DS","command":{"command":"MSS TF","assignment_date":"2025-03-31","id":"850"},"shield_no":5359,"taxid":"941904","complaint_ids":[201704822,201610413,201310969],"command_history":[{"command":"DB FCTF","id":"260"},{"command":"BKROBSQ","id":"252"},{"command":"QNROBSQ","id":"290"},{"command":"GANG Q"},{"command":"075 PCT","id":"75pct"}],"appt_date":"2006-07-10","age":40,"middle_initial":"E","shield_no_history":[22209,5261],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Patterson, Anthony vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2024-09-19","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"519172/2024","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On November 17, 2022, Detective Manzi falsely arrested the plaintiff and charged him with robbing two stores at gunpoint on October 27, 2022. The perpetrator stole cash registers and fled on a citibike. Lead detective Manzi believed that these robberies and another one committed a few days later were part of a pattern by the same perpetrator. Fingerprints and other evidence was collected, and witnesses were interviewed. The fingerprints did not match the Plaintiff's, and three of four witnesses did not identify him. Despite the evidence that Plaintiff was not the perpetrator, Detective Manzi arrested and charged him with two of the robberies. Sergeant Hillman, Manzi's supervisor, signed off on his work. \n\nUnable to make bail, Plaintiff was incarcerated for 7 months and 6 days before the charges were finally dismissed on June 12, 2023. In addition to being falsely arrested, maliciously prosecuted, and locked up for over 7 months for crimes he did not commit, Plaintiff also suffered through assaults and violence from other inmates at Riker's and continues to suffer psychologically from the ordeal.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=6snz6H_PLUS_xb8HoW_PLUS__PLUS__PLUS_Qpqu7A==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Allen, Shakim vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-08-21","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"517174/2019","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","officer_name":"Hillmann, Stephen E.","summary":"On or about August 04, 2016, Police Defendant Hui and Police Defendant Hillman, Corrections Defendant Hernandez, and other unnamed Police Defendants entered the residence wherein the Plaintiff was a lawful guest. After conducting an unauthorized search, the Plaintiff was unlawfully arrested and placed in tight handcuffs. When the Plaintiff was booked into the precinct, the Police Defendants conspired to provide the DAs office with false allegations.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=PkreJL1GSEbV38nGexNpzA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Graham, Reynold Jr. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-07-26","disposition_date":"2019-05-14","payout_amount":60000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"512348/2016","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","officer_name":"Hillmann, Stephen E.","summary":"On September 2019, plaintiff was attending a picnic at Highland Park and felt faint as a result of his diabetes. Defendant police officers punched plaintiff in the face, falsely arrested him, forcibly handcuffed him, kicked him, struck him in the ribs with a baton, etc. They dragged plaintiff through the park until an EMS worker made them stop. Once taken to hospital, plaintiff was held in police custody for 12 hours without being charged. Plaintiff was subsequently taken to the precinct and central booking where he was falsely charged with offenses. Plaintiff was falsely prosecuted and deprived of medical attention for his diabetes for over four days.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=9pzv43sInnRk7zZGxsY/Tw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Ford, Robert vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-05-09","disposition_date":"2017-03-22","payout_amount":2501,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"16CV02046","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Hillmann, Stephen E.","summary":"Plaintiff was at his girlfriend's apartment when Defendant Officers rushed in, struck plaintiff in the head with a shield, dragged him to the living room, and handcuffed him. The Defendant Officers searched the home for hours looking for guns but did not recover any. They strip searched Plaintiff in his bathroom and then arrested him and took him to the precinct.  Plaintiff was charged with a knife recovered from the kitchen drawer in the apartment, small bag of marijuana found inside the couch, and violating an order of protection that had ever existed. A grand jury voted to dismiss all the charges","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.384556.11.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4922555-Ford-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4325443/ford-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Carrasco, Alba, et al. vs P.O. Rodriguez, Jonathan, et al.","start_date":"2013-12-04","disposition_date":"2014-06-16","payout_amount":17500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV08556","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Hillmann, Stephen E.","summary":"On November 13, 2011, Plaintiff Carrasco was leaving a baby shower when NYPD officer defendants arrived and began aggressively brutalizing Plaintiff and his family and friends. A defendant office said \"handcuff that bitch\" and Plaintiff Carrasco was violently handcuffed and put in a police vehicle. Plaintiff Maynard, after finding out what happened at the baby shower, arrived at the precinct, where he observed one his friends, who was handcuffed and already bleeding, being beaten by the defendant officers. When Plaintiff Maynard asked why they were being beaten, the defendant officers threw him to the ground and began kicking, beating and punching his upper body with fists and a baton. The defendant officers informed the District Attorney they had observed Plaintiff Carrasco engaged in criminal activity and prepared false paperwork, including a false arrest report. Plaintiff Carrasco was in custody for 24 hours and later given an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal. Plaintiff Maynard was also held in custody for 24 hours and afterwards was treated for injuries caused by the defendants, including severe pain to his right shoulder, chest and neck as well as bruising throughout those areas.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.420746/gov.uscourts.nysd.420746.5.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13056062/carrasco-v-rodriguez/"},{"name":"Mays, Princeton vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-07-15","disposition_date":"2014-09-19","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV03975","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Hillmann, Stephen E.","summary":"On June 18, 2011, plaintiff was walking in the vicinity of 4 East 117th Street in Manhattan headed to a local store. Police Officer Manuel Encarnacion, Sergeant Joseph McKenna and Police Officer Joseph Morovich pulled up in a marked patrol car and ran toward plaintiff to stop and frisk him. In response to plaintiff’s exercise of free speech, one of the defendants, likely Morovich, slapped plaintiff in the face. The defendants arrested plaintiff, handcuffed him excessively tight and brought him to an unknown precinct. In the precinct, the aforesaid defendants, acting in concert with Officer Stephen Hillman, falsely charged plaintiff with felony possession of a firearm. Plaintiff was eventually taken to Manhattan Central Booking. While plaintiff was held in Manhattan Central Booking, Officer Encarnacion, Sergeant McKenna and Officer Morovich, acting in concert, initiated a prosecution against plaintiff or played a role in initiating a prosecution against him by causing Officer Hillman to misrepresent to prosecutors that plaintiff had thrown a black bag to the ground that contained a loaded firearm. Plaintiff was held in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction (“DOC”) for approximately 25 days.  While in the custody of the DOC, plaintiff was strip searched on numerous\noccasions and was attacked by another inmate. On July 11 or 12, 2011, plaintiff posted bail and returned to court numerous times until the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office dismissed the case on September 5, 2012. In a memorandum submitted to the criminal court, the District Attorney’s Office stated that it was dismissing the case due to problems with Officer Morovich’s version of the events that led to plaintiff’s arrest.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.344673/gov.uscourts.nyed.344673.7.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309098/mays-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"officer_name":"Hillmann, Stephen E.","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2012-10-12","disposition_date":"2013-07-09","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","docket":"12CV07509","name":"Mcgill, Torrance vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":85000,"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309099/mcgill-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"payroll":{"salary":"121048","regular":"120615","overtime":"53820","other":"26034","total":"200468"},"is_credibility":true,"id":"EHKX","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/EHKX"}