{"active":true,"first_name":"Matthew","last_name":"Velger","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"PO","command":{"command":"042 DET","assignment_date":"2026-07-24","id":"42det"},"shield_no":10295,"taxid":"951385","complaint_ids":[202604030,202603509,202506912,202502677,202411337,202407492,202307644,201506078],"command_history":[{"command":"OPS DIV","id":"735"},{"command":"INS TRN","id":"844"},{"command":"048 PCT","id":"48pct"},{"command":"042 PCT","id":"42pct"}],"appt_date":"2011-07-06","middle_initial":"R","lawsuits":[{"name":"Rosario, Ernesio vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2020-07-07","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"026930/2020","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Velger, Matthew"},{"name":"Richardson, Gregory vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-05-09","disposition_date":"2020-05-04","payout_amount":13500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"023527/2017E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Velger, Matthew","summary":"On or about May 21, 2016, at around 6 PM, plaintiff was lawfully and properly on a sidewalk in the Bronx when two police officers forcibly, violently, and unlawfully stopped, frisked, searched, and handcuffed him. The officers also assaulted and battered him in front of other members of the public. The officers violently tackled him onto the ground and threw him against a police van. They then arrested and imprisoned him without cause until approximately 12 PM the following day. Plaintiff brought suit against the city of New York, New York police officer Matthew Velger, and one unnamed New York police officer.\n\nNo formal criminal charges were pressed against plaintiff. Plaintiff underwent great emotional and mental anguish, physical harm, and loss of liberty and freedom during this encounter. The tight handcuffs placed on him during his arrest remained on him during his time in Central Booking. Plaintiff brought claims of false imprisonment, false arrest, negligence, unconstitutional conduct under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, civil assault, and civil battery.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=/etkYhZ1Ho1bSIxQNpCRRw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Cotto, Iris","start_date":"2016-12-02","disposition_date":"2018-09-06","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"16CV08651","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Velger, Matthew","summary":"On several occasions the plaintiff was arrested on false accusations and had these charges dismissed multiple times. The defendant officer, Detective Terrell, involved in these occasions did so because the plaintiff's mother would not engage in sexual activity with him. The plaintiff was beat on several occasions, harassed, searched, etc.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.464976/gov.uscourts.nysd.464976.50.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4620646/cotto-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Flores, Jonathan vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-06-03","disposition_date":"2020-10-09","payout_amount":215000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"023779/2016E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Velger, Matthew","summary":"On July 17, 2015, Plaintiff was assaulted, falsely arrested, falsely imprisoned, and illegally detained by Matthew Velger and Fidel Rosario. Plaintiff was forcibly detained handcuffed and pushed into a police vehicle. As a result, Plaintiff sustained injuries including bodily injury, deprivation of liberty, physical and mental suffering, indignity, humiliation, shame and disgrace.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=rt2a9A0mrB4RkuBu7Acl_PLUS_A==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Ruiz, Alan, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-11-10","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"304591/2015","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Velger, Matthew"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21030693-df-caballero915385","type":"brady-giglio"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/KTHR-matthew-velger.jpg","payroll":{"salary":"109352","regular":"108510","overtime":"10938","other":"21911","total":"141360"},"id":"KTHR","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/KTHR"}