{"active":true,"first_name":"Christopher","last_name":"Heredia","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"DT2","command":{"command":"WARRSEC","assignment_date":"2016-01-18","id":"118"},"shield_no":1339,"taxid":"938656","complaint_ids":[202412682,202403876,202402390,202104011,202006522,202006887,202000843,201905329,201905365,201807958,201801085,201603650,201304277,201013965,200609399],"command_history":[{"command":"PSA 5","id":"PSA5"},{"command":"NARCBMN","id":"250"}],"appt_date":"2005-07-11","middle_initial":"C","shield_no_history":[25821],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Figueroa, Caridad & Cantero, Amaya vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2024-12-17","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"157650/2024","court":"Supreme Court - New York","summary":"Plaintiff’s stepbrother had a warrant issued for his arrest in April 2021 and lived with Plaintiff’s mother prior to 2021. Plaintiff and her mother lived in the same apartment building, but on different floors. Defendant Detective Felix Garcia unlawfully entered and searched for Plaintiff’s stepbrother in Plaintiff’s apartment, without a warrant. Defendant Detective Garcia knew that Plaintiff lived in the apartment he entered unlawfully. On May 25, 2021 at 7:45AM, defendants searched for Plaintiff’s stepbrother at his mother’s apartment and then they went to plaintiffs apartment. They began kicking the front door of Plaintiff’s apartment. Plaintiff spoke with defendants through the front door of her apartment and let them know she was not going to open her door because the person they were looking for was not in the apartment. Plaintiff opened the door to see the alleged search warrant they had, and when the door was open, they stuck their leg in the opening of the door to prevent her from closing the door. Defendants showed her a warrant from Utah that was for her mother’s apartment and not her apartment. Defendants would not allow her to close the front door of her apartment and eventually Plaintiff let them in because they would not allow her to close the door and informed her that they would enter anyways. Defendants searched areas of the apartment where Plaintiff’s step brother could not be located, such as inside of drawers and in the microwave. Defendants did not find Plaintiff’s stepbrother and concluded their search. \n\nOn June 23, 2021, Defendants knocked on Plaintiff’s door at 7AM and Defendants asked Plaintiff what she was trying to hide and they informed her she would be criminally prosecuted if she did not open the front door. They also informed her that they would break down the front door and Plaintiff let them in following the threats. They once again performed a search and concluded it once they did not find Plaintiff’s stepbrother.\n\nOn August 19, 2021 at 8AM, Defendants began knocking again and informed them they would use a battering ram to break down the front door of the apartment. Plaintiffs asked for a minute to get dressed and when they opened the door, the Defendants prevented them from closing it once again. This time, they were not given permission to enter the apartment. Defendant Detective Garcia pushed one of the Plaintiff’s out of the way, causing her to fall to the ground in order for him to gain entry into the apartment. Defendant’s did not have a valid warrant on August 19th and they forcefully entered Plaintiff’s apartment without consent or any legal justification.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=iUNOTW7zWj3C0fxU7aYkJg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Thomas, Steve vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2024-03-14","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"819226/2023E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher C.","summary":"On November 30, 2020, Plaintiff was lawfully present when Defendant Detectives Joe Green, Christopher Heredia, Allen Moore, Police Officer Jonathan Tait, Detective Specialist Nibal Pena, and Police Offices John Does 1-10, unlawfully stopped, searched, handcuffed, and falsely arrested Plaintiff without probable cause. Nevertheless, the officers falsely arrested Plaintiff accusing him as being involved in a shooting that allegedly occurred on October 24, 2020. Plaintiff was then transported against his will to the 23rd precinct where he was unlawfully searched and detained in a filthy holding cell for many hours. The defendant officers provided the NYC DA's Office with false, misleading, and incomplete evidence to justify their arrest.  Plaintiff was transported to Central Booking where the unlawful detention continued until he was arraigned on December 1, 2020, approximately 24 hours after he was initially arrested. Plaintiff could not afford bail so he remained in NYC DOC's custody on Riker's Island until December 4, 2020 without proper food, bed, or toilet. Plaintiff was acquitted of all charges filed against favor on March 7, 2023.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240814192414/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=MBJkF30UR2LgEA3/JRF6Ig==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Thomas, Steve vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2024-03-14","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"452131/2025","court":"Supreme Court - New York"},{"name":"Spruill, Jeremiah vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-01-26","disposition_date":"2025-03-21","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"21CV00181","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","summary":"On March 12, 2014, the Plaintiff was falsely arrested for selling drugs. Subsequently, due to false testimony, the plaintiff was convicted for 6 years in prison. In November 2018, the DA voluntarily dismissed all charges.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.551877/gov.uscourts.nysd.551877.47.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29093657/spruill-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Spruill, Jeremiah vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-04-19","disposition_date":"2025-03-20","payout_amount":1500000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"153749/2019","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher C.","summary":"On March 12, 2014, plaintiff was on his way to work and not engaged in any criminal activity, when defendant POs Fernandez, Hairston and Heredia, without a warrant or probable cause, stopped and arrested him. Plaintiff, who is African-American, was stopped because he vaguely matched the description of a man who had engaged in a drug sale during a \"buy-and-bust\" operation near the area. Defendant POs then signed a criminal complaint, knowingly relying on a false statement linking plaintiff with the drug sale. Defendant POs then prepared false police reports, causing plaintiff to be prosecuted and convicted for crimes he did not commit.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=SRJezReZSYpxp/mtbmGseg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Murray, Robert Lee Jr. vs Police Department, Nyc, et al.","start_date":"2018-08-31","disposition_date":"2020-07-09","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"18CV06978","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher C.","summary":"On July 24, 2018, Plaintiff was picked up by several NYPD officers (Defendants) for a parole violation. While in Defendants' vehicle, Plaintiff asked to be brought to the parole office. Defendants choked Plaintiff and punched him all over his body, causing injuries to Plaintiff's legs and back. Plaintiff's Parole Officer, M. Prophete, said that she would provide the assaulting officers' names, but did not do so. Individuals at Bellevue Hospital falsified documents to cover up the act.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.498607/gov.uscourts.nysd.498607.2.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7592263/murray-v-nypd-dept-of-parole/"},{"name":"Alvarez, Kevin vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-11-04","disposition_date":"2016-06-23","payout_amount":30500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV08063","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher C.","summary":"Plaintiff was outside standing next to someone who had been previously apprehended in a buy and bust at that location. Officers then approached Plaintiff, tightly handcuffed him, searched him, and taken into custody.  Plaintiff was charged with 220.39.  UC-0039 testified against Plaintiff and the DA's office doubted his testimony, resulting in dismissal of the indictment.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4921498-Alvarez-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13247490/alvarez-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Priveterre, Stephen vs Charlson, Sean, et al.","start_date":"2015-07-15","disposition_date":"2016-08-05","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"14CV08841","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher C.","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4354402/priveterre-v-forte/"},{"name":"Garcia, Jose Alejandro vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-06-09","disposition_date":"2016-01-27","payout_amount":30000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"153053/2015","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher","summary":"On February 1, 2014, Plaintiff was lawfully walking on the sidewalk with his brother when NYPD Defendants approached him, failed to identify themselves, restrained him with physical force, and detained him by placing metal handcuffs on his person and placing him in an NYPD motor vehicle secured by locking mechanisms. Plaintiff was restrained and detained against his will and without probable cause or other legal justification. Defendants initiated criminal judicial proceedings against Plaintiff purposefully, and with malicious intent. On or about February 12, 2014, all charges against Plaintiff were dismissed, terminating the judicial proceedings in his favor.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=1UuqSTzbRISUQEjecKDcqA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Smith, Rodney vs Hairston, Jamel, et al.","start_date":"2015-04-17","disposition_date":"2015-09-17","payout_amount":45000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV02764","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher","summary":"Undercover Defendants approached Plaintiff while he was on the street, questioned him, and arrested a man nearby that Plaintiff had recently spoken to for heroin possession. Officers subsequently arrested Plaintiff, took him to 25th precinct, charged him with 220.39(1) Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the third degree, which was later dismissed due to video surveillance that proved Plaintiff's innocence.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920672-Smith-v-Hairston-et-al","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355068/smith-v-hairston/"},{"name":"Tucker, Theodore vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-03-12","disposition_date":"2016-02-16","payout_amount":60000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"161282/2014","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher","summary":"On January 28, 2012, at approximately 12:30 p.m., the plaintiff, Theodore Tucker, was lawfully present in the vicinity of 1st Avenue and 105th Street, New York, and was subject to a stop by some of the defendants, certain New York police officers. The plaintiff was subsequently frisked and searched, questioned, and then arrested by the same police officers, without probable cause. The police officers did not find any illegal drugs, weapons or contraband from the search but the plaintiff was handcuffed and transported to 23rd precinct. The plaintiff was strip searched at the precinct, then fingerprinted, photographed and placed in a holding cell for several hours, before being transported to Manhattan Central Booking where he was held for additional hours. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants provided false information to New York County District Attorney, resulting in his arraignment in the New York County Criminal Court for serious felony crimes that the plaintiff did not commit. On or about August 13, 2013, the plaintiff was acquitted of all charges brought against him in the criminal proceeding.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=LtcbAxckNs7GUmgLJRVWmg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Diaz, Johnny vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-10-01","disposition_date":"2015-03-18","payout_amount":100000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV05126","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher","summary":"On August 16, 2011, Plaintiff was walking on a street in his neighborhood when NYPD officers approached him, falsely identified him as someone who had conducted a drug deal with an undercover officer, and arrested him. At the precinct, Plaintiff was subjected to a strip search, and the officers submitted a field report that falsely stated Plaintiff sold heroin to an undercover officer. In the criminal complaint, the undercover officers stated that they handed Plaintiff a recorded $20 bill. After bail was set, Plaintiff was unable to make bail, so he was held for nine months before they released him and dropped the charges. In dropping the charges, the District Attorney's office noted that, contrary to the complaint, their investigation showed that the undercover cop did not see money exchanged in this way, and Plaintiff only had eight $1 bills on him when he was arrested, with no indication of any drugs or more money in his vicinity.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.429413.2.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4353853/diaz-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Bluett, Laquantes vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-02-11","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"150483/2014","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Heredia, Christopher","summary":"On or about January 28, 2012 inside an apartment building PO Jamal Hairston, Undercover Officers (UOs) Unnamed and Ghost, and Dets. Christopher Heredia, Keith Carpenter, and Abel Joseph wrongfully grabbed and handcuffed Plaintiff in an excessive manner without legal justification. Plaintiff was unlawfully taken into custody and held in false imprisonment for approximately 18 months. Plaintiff was maliciously prosecuted until August 13, 2013 when all charges were dismissed. Plaintiff suffered physical pain, mental suffering, humiliation, mental anguish, and indignity as a result of this incident.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=ksf3whn9b2eMfXCPbAhQ1A==","type":"complaint"}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22085394-seh_938656","type":"employment-history"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/N3G9-christopher-heredia.jpg","payroll":{"salary":"119980","regular":"115753","overtime":"52073","other":"24499","total":"192325"},"id":"N3G9","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/N3G9"}