{"active":true,"first_name":"Daryl","last_name":"Melhado","race":"Black","gender":"Male","rank":"LT CD","command":{"command":"DB MNHM","assignment_date":"2026-03-30","id":"129"},"taxid":"940464","complaint_ids":[202001715,201802439,201802194,201606441,201410738,201408523,201407529,201406818,201400048,200917132,200900279],"command_history":[{"command":"040 PCT","id":"40pct"},{"command":"025 PCT","id":"25pct"},{"command":"NARCBBX"},{"command":"023 PCT","id":"23pct"},{"command":"023 DET","id":"23det"}],"appt_date":"2006-01-09","age":42,"middle_initial":"L","shield_no_history":[8260,1268],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Taylor, Nathaniel vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2022-12-20","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"160778/2022","court":"Supreme Court - New York","summary":"On or about June 4, 2019, near Plaintiff’s residence, POs Hom and Opokuduro approached Plaintiff and took his elbow, and began to frisk him. POs, including Hom, Opokuduro, Melhado, Dambrosio, tackled and arrested Plaintiff without any legal basis, causing Plaintiff to hit the ground and be tightly handcuffed. POs explained the reason for the arrest was that he bore a physical resemblance to a shooting suspect, whose appearance was significantly different and who had already been arrested more than an hour before Hom and Opokuduro approached Plaintiff. Plaintiff was maliciously prosecuted and transported to Federal Holding where he remained for 7 months. He suffered various physical, emotional and psychological injuries.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240701004510/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=YbxsswsoTPSmOw3HKpHC/g==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Simpson, Babie vs Det. Reyna, Jose., et al.","start_date":"2019-12-16","disposition_date":"2022-01-13","payout_amount":30000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"032749/2019E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl L.","summary":"On October 28, 2016 Plaintiff was in front of a grocery store located on the corner of Prospect Ave. and Homes St. in the Bronx, when Defendant Officers unlawfully stopped, questioned, frisked, searched, handcuffed, and falsely arrested Plaintiff. Plaintiff was held at Bronx Central Booking in a holding cell that was infested with  insects and vermin and was bitted numerous times by bed bugs, causing Plaintiff to suffer from painful swelling for weeks. Plaintiff was arraigned on charges for crimes he did not commit and all charges were terminated against Plaintiff on October 27, 2017.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=iDPnvhRkbzoTfvs3BRjXNw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Cuevas, Christopher vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-08-07","disposition_date":"2021-07-19","payout_amount":20000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"19CV06709","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl L.","summary":"On April 20, 2018, Plaintiff was exiting his parked vehicle to pick up food for delivery when defendant P.O.s, including Zohaib Iqbal and Daryl Melhado stopped plaintiff and commanded him to get back in his car without justification. Defendants ordered plaintiff to roll down the windows of his vehicle and asked plaintiff for his driving license and vehicle registration. Defendants radioed for backup and ordered plaintiff to get out of his car. Six more unnamed police officers arrived on the scene. Defendants, including Iqbal and Melhado, searched Plaintiff's vehicle without consent, warrant, or probable cause. During the search, defendants, including Iqbal and Melhado bent plaintiff's hands very hard while handcuffing him, ignoring plaintiff's complaints that the cuffs were too tight. Defendants did not say why plaintiff was being arrested.\n\nPlaintiff was transported to the 23rd Precinct, where he was searched without justification. Defendants Iqbal and Melhado removed plaintiff's pants and touched him all over his body without consent, including his genitals and buttocks. Plaintiff was told that he had been arrested because the police had found a razor in his car. The razor was a legal tool used for cutting hair, and was packaged with similar haircutting tools. Plaintiff was transported to Central Booking, arraigned, and released on April 22, 2018. Defendants Iqbal and Melhado falsely alleged and attested to prosecutors that plaintiff was observed committing crimes. Defendant Iqbal falsely claimed that plaintiff possessed the razor with intent to use it on another.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.519503/gov.uscourts.nysd.519503.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15936996/cuevas-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Scott, Kurt vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-07-18","disposition_date":"2022-03-22","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"19CV06289","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl L.","summary":"On May 15, 2018 Plaintiff was driving his car in Manhattan with a passenger in the front seat. Defendants Ramirez and Melhado pulled Plaintiff over without probably cause. Plaintiff was not disobeying any laws or orders. Plaintiff was ordered to exit the car which he did. The defendants searched the car without probable cause to do so. They found a counterfeit bill in the purse of the front seat passenger. Plaintiff was arrested for forgery and placed in handcuffs which were too tight. Ultimately the DA declined to prosecute the charges and they were dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23688696-2022_scott_19cv06289","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15886768/scott-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Cancel, Minerva vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-06-20","disposition_date":"2021-12-03","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"026487/2019E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl L.","summary":"On June 16, 2017, Plaintiff was lawfully standing in the hallway of 815 East 152nd Street, Bronx, New York, in the vicinity of the front door of apartment 6A. While Plaintiff, who was holding her mobile phone in her hand, was in the hallway standing in front of the door of apartment 6A, an individual inside of the apartment opened the door. Suddenly, without any provocation or legal justification, Defendants Hernandez,  Green, Estevez, Nin, Kipervaser, Felipe,\nand,  Melhado rushed behind Plaintiff, grabbing and pushing her against a wall inside of the apartment. Inside, Plaintiff, who had begun videotaping the scene with her mobile phone, had the phone confiscated from her hand by a Defendant Officer. Defendants then placed Ms. Cancel under arrest. The Defendants did not have any legal justification to arrest Plaintiff. Defendants searched Plaintiff’s person without her authority or permission. Defendants found no contraband or anything illegal on Ms. Cancel. Defendants then placed Ms. Cancel into an NYPD vehicle where she remained for approximately four hours before finally arriving at the 40th Precinct. During this four-hour period, Plaintiff was not allowed to use the bathroom. \n\nAt the 40th precinct, plaintiff was fingerprinted, photographed, and unlawfully detained in a holding cell. At the 40th precinct, Plaintiff was subjected to an unlawful strip search in that Plaintiff was forced to expose her breasts as well as lower her pants and underwear exposing the most intimate areas of the human body without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Plaintiff was later transported to Bronx Central Booking. The Defendants falsely stated to the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office that plaintiff had committed a crime. After approximately 37 hours in police custody, plaintiff was arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court and was released. Plaintiff later retrieved her previously confiscated mobile phone and saw the videotape she had taken of the Defendants had been erased. Plaintiff was unlawfully charged with Criminal Possession of Marihuana in the\nSecond, Third, Fourth, Fifth Degree, as well as Unlawful Sale, Possession or use of an Imitation Pistol, and Unlawful Possession of Marihuana Plaintiff was forced to appear in Court several times before all charges against plaintiff were dismissed on or about October 15, 2018.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240805005518/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=fPtVKH7m/6dQW_PLUS_OdABM8Ww==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Mccarter, Robert vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-02-27","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"19CV01589","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl L.","summary":"On March 8, 2018, Plaintiff Robert McCarter was arrested while working his job as a parking assistant for a production company, for driving a car without a valid NY State driver's license. However, plaintiff was in possession of a valid restricted use license which authorized him to drive while working. Despite this, plaintiff was arrested and charged where he remained in central booking for 30 hours. All charges were dismissed a couple months later. Plaintiff was subject to a false arrest and imprisonment without probable cause by officers Rosanna Espinal and Daryl Melhado.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.510414/gov.uscourts.nysd.510414.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14719820/mccarter-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Bryant, Joel vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2018-11-19","disposition_date":"2019-12-15","payout_amount":2500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"18CV10529","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl L.","summary":"On August 15, 2018, plaintiff was traveling in a taxi with three friends.  P.O.s Sheldon P. Elliott, Michael J. Laborde, Daryl L. Melhado, Ivonne Ramirez, Sergeant Ghibaudi, and two unnamed officers pulled over the taxi with their weapons drawn, forcibly removed plaintiff from the car, and arrested plaintiff without cause.  The officers tightly handcuffed plaintiff with his hands placed behind his back.  The officers forcibly placed plaintiff inside their police vehicle and transported him to the 23rd Precinct, where he was interrogated and had DNA unlawfully collected from him.  At the precinct, the officers placed plaintiff inside a cell, handcuffed him to a pole, and seized his phone without providing any voucher for plaintiff to reclaim his property.  The officers have since refused to return any of his properties.  Plaintiff did not possess any weapons and did not commit any offense, but the defendant officers falsely stated to the prosecutors that plaintiff was in possession of a weapon. The prosecutors conducted an independent investigation and concluded there was no evidence of a crime, so they declined to prosecute the plaintiff.  Despite no crime or prosecution, the officers retained plaintiff's DNA and refused to return or destroy it.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.504610/gov.uscourts.nysd.504610.35.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8172303/bryant-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Hernandez, Angelo, vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2018-10-05","disposition_date":"2020-07-17","payout_amount":110000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"025761/2018E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl L.","summary":"On February 15, 2017, defendants police officers Daryl Melhado and Alhadys Reyes grabbed the plaintiff, threw him against a fence, and searched him. The plaintiff was arrested without probable cause. The defendants made false allegations to the Bronx County District Attorney's Office that they saw the plaintiff hand drugs to another man, which results in serious felony charges against the plaintiff. Eventually, the criminal charges were dismissed, but the plaintiff had lost his job.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=qppcmKKwKiNuG43Gsuf9Mg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Mcrae, Ashine vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-05-04","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"17CV03103","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6125770/mcrae-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Gonzalez, Melissa vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-01-07","disposition_date":"2017-06-16","payout_amount":20000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV10142","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl","summary":"Plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle that the NYPD attempted to pull over.  The vehicle fled for a little bit and then the driver got out and ran away. Plaintiff had no control over the vehicle but was still arrested for 120.20, Reckless Endangerment in the Second Degree, and  205.30, Resisting Arrest, which were ACD'd.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4921674-Gonzalez-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.451730.23.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4356359/gonzalez-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Adams, Daniel, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-10-07","disposition_date":"2016-03-30","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"15CV07907","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl","summary":"Plaintiffs were in a vehicle that was stopped. Asked to exit the vehicle and were searched as well as the vehicle. Defendants opened the trunk of the vehicle were they stated they found weapons, contraband and narcotics. Plaintiffs were held in custody for over 24 hours and their criminal cases were later dismissed on the DA's motion.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4921485-Adams-et-al-v-City-Of-New-York-et-al","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355921/adams-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Jordan, Charles vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-08-14","disposition_date":"2018-05-21","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"15CV06364","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl","summary":"On December 5, 2012, defendants forcibly entered into plaintiff's apartment. Defendants tackled and forced plaintiff to the ground and began to punch and kick him, causing bruising to plaintiff head and body. Defendants searched the apartment, and found medication belonging to his wife. Defendants confronted plaintiff with the medication and asked him why he was in possession of a controlled substance. Despite plaintiff pointing out that it belonged to his wife, defendants arrested plaintiff. Defendants subsequently lied to the DA's office to justify his arrest.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923084-Jordan-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.446084.60.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923085-Jordan-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355665/jordan-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Singleton, Ronald vs City of New York, et al.","docket":"301183/2013","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","start_date":"2013-03-04","disposition_date":"2014-01-07","disposition":"Settlement","payout_amount":37500,"defendant":"Melhado, Daryl","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl"},{"officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl L.","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2011-01-24","disposition_date":"2013-03-01","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","docket":"300423/2011","name":"Singleton, Ebony S. vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":12500},{"name":"Luis, Andrew Hugo vs City of New York, et al.","docket":"309407/2009","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","start_date":"2009-12-01","disposition_date":"2015-09-01","disposition":"Zero Disposition","payout_amount":0,"defendant":"Melhado, Daryl","officer_name":"Melhado, Daryl"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"}],"payroll":{"salary":"170234","regular":"163254","overtime":"69779","other":"20608","total":"253641"},"id":"G77K","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/G77K"}