{"active":false,"first_name":"Ronald","last_name":"Hobson","race":"Black","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"WARRSEC","assignment_date":"2019-12-03","id":"118"},"shield_no":3861,"ended_date":"2026-08-03","taxid":"941908","complaint_ids":[201902111,201602498,201404883,201013537,200803434,200716141,200706341],"command_history":[{"command":"046 PCT","id":"46pct"}],"appt_date":"2006-07-10","age":45,"shield_no_history":[17689],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Boahene, Mantey vs City of Ny, et al.","disposition_date":"2026-01-12","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Administrative Closing","docket":"029330/2017","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx"},{"name":"Pena, Lamec vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-12-30","disposition_date":"2023-05-10","payout_amount":32500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"034955/2019E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Hobson, Ronald","summary":"On or about February 21, 2015, at approximately 3:30am in the vicinity of 1750 Sedgwick Avenue, plaintiff was lawfully seated in a parked vehicle when defendant police officer Ronald Hobson, NYPD (Shield 017689) took plaintiff out of his vehicle, violently handcuffed him and conducted a warrantless arrest without probable cause. Plaintiff was taken into custody and transported to Central Booking, and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated although he was sober and had not been driving at the time of his arrest. On February 22, 2015, Plaintiff was arraigned and released but continued to come to court until he was acquitted of all charged over four years later on May 15, 2019. Plaintiff files this claim for malicious prosecution because plaintiffs deliberately and maliciously prosecuted plaintiff without any probable cause by filing or cause to be filed a complaint in Criminal Court of the City of New York, Bronx County, for the purpose of falsely accusing the Plaintiff of a violating New York criminal laws.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=CZlSjU5mIV9dWtf6npLpPw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Mendez, Pedro vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-11-20","disposition_date":"2021-03-01","payout_amount":25000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"033522/2019E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Hobson, Ronald","summary":"On October 29, 2017, Plaintiff Pedro Mendez was lawfully driving on the Cross Bronx Expressway at 3:30 AM when Defendant Officers Ronald Hobson and Darryl Schwartz approached him, unlawfully arrested, handcuffed and placed him in their squad car and took him to the local precinct, where Plaintiff was fingerprinted and taken to central booking. On February 5, 2018, the charges against plaintiff were dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=XTMNm62DfiVX0N0IsaERaQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Ponce, Raul vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2018-09-07","disposition_date":"2019-11-26","payout_amount":75000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"030252/2018E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Hobson, Ronald","summary":"On September 24, 2017, plaintiff had been sleeping in his car when he was awoken by defendant PO Hobson and Doe. They first told him to call his daugther to pick him and his car up. While waiting for the daughter to arrive, defendant PO Hobson arrested plaintiff without probable cause. Plaintiff was falsely charged and released on his own recognisances. Due to the pending charges, plaintiff's professional license was suspended and he was unable to find work as a truck driver, his profession for twenty years. The false charges brought against him were dismissed 6 months later.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=Qf6kIGustyRMVLWELR4hTg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Boahene v. City of New York et al","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","disposition":"Settlement","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4928610-Boahene-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"020150/2018","officer_name":"Ronald V. Hobson"}],"discipline":[{"disposition_date":"2017-06-07","case_no":"2015-14562","penalty":"Vacation days (10 days)","charges":[{"desc":"Did wrongfully engage in unauthorized off-duty employment.","disposition":"Guilty"}]}],"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/21024274-hobson-6bcdcd34904a56d2fd4ec8bed0c1468c468f35e4","type":"brady-giglio","complaints":[{"complaint_id":201016396,"available":true}]}],"id":"SQ7X","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/SQ7X"}