{"active":false,"first_name":"Aaronjames","last_name":"Vinculado","race":"Asian","gender":"Male","rank":"PO","command":{"command":"SPL TRN","assignment_date":"2023-02-14"},"shield_no":15971,"ended_date":"2023-02-01","taxid":"967716","complaint_ids":[202107622],"command_history":[{"command":"MELD","id":"MELD"},{"command":"034 PCT","id":"34pct"}],"appt_date":"2019-04-15","middle_initial":"B","lawsuits":[{"name":"M., D. an Minor By M/n/g Haynes-Ward, Shaquana vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2023-03-14","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"152357/2023","court":"Supreme Court - New York","summary":"On or about December 14, 2021, Plaintiff Shaquana Haynes called 911 seeking assistance transporting her son, D.M. who suffers from severe mental and developmental health issues to a nearby hospital. D.M., who was thirteen at the time, had left home and did not return for several days. On December 14, he reappeared outside the family apartment, and Haynes called for emergency services, as she was previously advised to do by D.M.’s medical providers.\nThe officers of the 34th precinct, including the Individual Defendants, Defendant Police Officer Paris Giddins, Defendant Police Officer Aaronjames B. Vinculado and Defendant John Does 1–5, were familiar with D.M.’s mental health status, as Haynes had worked with the precinct on prior occasions to keep her son safe, including in instances such as this one, where he needed an emergency medical intervention and transport to a hospital for mental health care after running away. But when the Individual Defendants arrived at the apartment on December 14, 2021, they insisted that Haynes take her son inside the apartment and deal with the crisis herself. When Haynes reiterated that her son was sick and needed help, the Individual Defendants stated that if Haynes did not take D.M. inside their home, they would arrest her.Haynes asked why she would be arrested, and repeated that her son was sick and needed to be transported to a hospital. During this time, D.M. was sitting on the ground outside the apartment with a stray dog he brought home after being gone for several days. Haynes continued to plead with the officers to help her son and get him to a hospital, but the officers refused this request.\nEventually, after Haynes asked to speak with a supervisor, PO Giddens and/or Vinculado crossed the threshold of Plaintiffs’ front door and held it open with his foot. When Haynes told the officers they were violating her rights, they kicked the door in toward her. Haynes asked the officer to stop kicking her door and said that she would step into the hallway to speak to the officers. She was wheelchair bound due to paralysis on her left side caused by a recent stroke, and primarily relied on her wheelchair to ambulate at the time of this incident. Haynes’s wife assisted her from her chair onto her walker so she could stand in the hallway with the officers. The Individual Defendants then cuffed Haynes’s right hand to her walker, in front of D.M., but refused to tell her the basis of the erroneous arrest. They then turned to the 13-year- old child and asked him directly if he had any family nearby with whom he could stay. Haynes explained that she was D.M.’s only available family, and that her son needed to remain with her and go to the hospital. The Individual Defendants ignored Haynes, whispered back and forth with D.M., and allowed the child to “lead” them to a home across the street, where the officers left D.M. with an adult male who was (and remains) completely unknown to Haynes. The Individual Defendants proceeded to re-cuff Haynes to her wheelchair and told her she would need to wait for a car that could accommodate her wheelchair. Hours went by until Haynes was eventually taken downstairs for transport to the precinct. Her wife explained to the officers that Haynes had just had a stroke and suffered from paralysis on her left side as well as a tumor in her spine, and the officers needed to be extremely careful handling her. But Individual Defendants had not obtained an accessible vehicle as they said they would, and they recklessly attempted to lift Haynes into a regular police vehicle, dropping her in the process.\nHalf of her body fell inside of the vehicle, while the other half hit the concrete as her wheelchair rolled backwards from underneath her. Haynes’s wife then insisted that she be the one to lift her spouse into the non- accessible vehicle to avoid further injury, and was able to place her spouse into the car.\nDuring transport, Haynes learned that the Individual Defendant left D.M. with his “uncle” across the street. Haynes told the officers that D.M. had no family in the neighborhood, and no “uncle” across the street, and told the officers they had just left her son with a stranger in the midst of his mental health crisis. To this day, Haynes does not know the identity of this stranger or the exact location where the Individual Defendants left her son during her detention. The officer driving the police transport vehicle began apologizing to Haynes and telling her this entire incident and arrest never should have happened, acknowledging that the officers knew the family and had previously assisted both mother and child at the same location.Upon arrival at the 47th precinct, Haynes’s wife lifted her from the non-accessible vehicle into the wheelchair the officers had tried to leave behind at the apartment.\nWhen Haynes entered the 47th precinct, the Lieutenant on duty was mortified to see a wheelchair-bound woman cuffed in a cell without any legitimate arrest charges, and he asked Haynes about the events leading up to her arrest.\nAfter Haynes told the Lieutenant what happened over the course of the last several hours, he insisted that Haynes be released as soon as possible.\nThe Lieutenant began questioning the Individual Defendants about why they arrested her or brought her to his precinct rather than their own. Haynes remained cuffed to her chair in a cell for approximately one hour while begging the officers to find and help her son. She also told the officers that her stepmother’s funeral was that morning, and she was concerned that she would miss the services if she remained detained. By the time she was released, Haynes was unable to get to the funeral in time, compounding the significant emotional injuries she sustained as a result of her wrongful arrest.\nHaynes had to contact the Administration for Children’s Services to discover the status and location of her son, D.M., who was never taken to the hospital or checked on by the Individual Defendants, who knowingly left him in the care of a stranger.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=lLAPWZnDuBSOQv2/VwF5qg==","type":"complaint"}]}],"id":"LVBB","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/LVBB"}