{"active":false,"first_name":"Mitchell","last_name":"Geist","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT1","command":{"command":"DB BXHM"},"shield_no":6934,"ended_date":"2020-09-01","taxid":"904014","complaint_ids":[200207169,9403733],"command_history":[{"command":"ND BXCI"}],"appt_date":"1993-08-30","lawsuits":[{"name":"Tavarez, Braidy vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-05-27","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"807199/2021E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","summary":"On September 5, 2018, Plaintiff was inside their residence when Defendant Police Officers handcuffed and falsely arrested Plaintiff without probable cause and falsely charged Plaintiff with murdering a stranger on August 31, 2018, even though the officers lacked evidence necessary to accuse plaintiff of committing a crime. Plaintiff was handcuffed and transported to the precinct where they were interrogated outside of the presence of an attorney and detained for many hours. Plaintiff was transported to Central Booking and detained until their arraignment on September 6, 2018, where they were charged with murder. Defendant Officers provided the Bronx District Attorney's Office with false, misleading and incomplete information regarding their purported basis for establishing probable cause. Plaintiff was remanded to custody, where they were unlawfully detained for a majority of the detention on Riker's Island, until February 11, 2019 when the judge set bail and they were released. The video surveillance Defendant Officers recovered after the murder showed male individuals that did not match Plaintiff's physical appearance, and neither witness Defendant Officers spoke to gave Plaintiff's name or identified Plaintiff to the Officers. Plaintiff spent $25,000 on private criminal defense and investigation services. All charges against Plaintiff were dismissed and sealed on November 12, 2020.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240618223612/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=xbpk9nT6w1k0JKmuC3cDnQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Muhammad, Yadullahi vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2020-01-08","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"035400/2019E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Geist, Mitchell","summary":"On April 8, 2014, at approximately 5:00 a.m., Plaintiff Muhammad was at home sleeping with his family, at 211 Southern Boulevard, 4B, Bronx, NY, when Defendants, including Police Officers Geist, Gaston, Disimone, Farrell, Reyes, Batista, Smith, Green, Talleyrand, Oktrova, Warkenthein and John or Jane Doe 1 through 10 knocked on their door and claimed they had a warrant for an individual named \"Mutar Mohammed.\" Plaintiff's girlfriend answered the door and told the Defendant Officers that nobody with that name lived at that location. Defendant Officers aggressively pushed their way into the apartment with their guns drawn and pointed at Plaintiff without probable cause. Plaintiff was forced to the ground at gun point by Defendant Officers, Plaintiff was then subject to a search without probable cause or reasonable suspicion to believe he was Mutar Mohammed or that he had committed a violation of the law. Defendants rear handcuffed Plaintiff extremely tightly, causing substantial pain and injury to his wrists and hands and transported Plaintiff to a local NYPD precinct where Plaintiff was subject to a strip search with cavity inspection. \n\nPlaintiff was held in a cell at the precinct for approximately four days before he was informed by Defendants that he had been indicted by a grand jury on several different charges. Defendants had intentionally provided false information to the Bronx County District Attorney and offered false, fraudulent and misleading testimony to the grandy jury convened to investigate the charges against Plaintiff to ensure that he was indicted. Plaintiff was arraigned and formally charged with three (3) counts of Criminal Conspiracy in the First Degree, three (3) counts of Criminal Conspiracy in the Second Degree, one (1) count of Criminal Conspiracy in the Third Degree and one (1) count of Criminal Conspiracy in the Fourth Degree. Plaintiff was unable to meet his bail conditions and was remanded to custody at Riker's Island, where he remained for 11 months until he was released on bail in March 2015. During his incarceration on Riker's Island, Plaintiff was forcibly subject to multiple strip searches with cavity inspections. Over the next four years, Plaintiff was forced to return to court to face the false charges against him several times before all charges were eventually dismissed on October 2, 2018.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=N69KbqynMZs4GV2K2IAM4A==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Lawrence, Darrell vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-11-06","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"022077/2016","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Geist, Mitchell","summary":"On October 20, 2012, Plaintiff was lawfully present as his residence when Defendant POs arrested and detained Plaintiff without provocation or just or probable cause. Plaintiff was charged with attempted murder for a shooting that allegedly took place in September 2012. On February 3, 2015, the charges against Plaintiff were totally dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=ViP8Tldk7uisD7hcYWSZcA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Lawrence, Darrell vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-11-06","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"0304670/2015","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Geist, Mitchell","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5378724-Lawrence-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}]},{"name":"Berry, Ralph vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-02-11","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"300538/2014","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Geist, Mitchell"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"}],"id":"EJTB","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/EJTB"}