{"active":false,"first_name":"Robert","last_name":"Kelly","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"SGT SA","command":{"command":"040 PCT","assignment_date":"2024-07-18","id":"40pct"},"shield_no":3349,"ended_date":"2024-07-02","taxid":"924018","complaint_ids":[201700099,201605437,201509500,201411647,201402020,201304277,201213132,200900848,200716525,200302235,200203680],"command_history":[{"command":"PROPCLK","id":"106"},{"command":"MAN CT","id":"127"},{"command":"052 PCT","id":"52pct"},{"command":"025 PCT","id":"25pct"},{"command":"NARCBMN","id":"250"}],"appt_date":"1999-07-07","age":53,"middle_initial":"V","shield_no_history":[23827],"lawsuits":[{"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":"Mccray, Aaron, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-05-03","disposition_date":"2020-08-11","payout_amount":32500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"025171/2019","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Kelly, Robert V.","summary":"On October 5, 2016, plaintiff McCray went to the grocery store one block from his residence, where he lives with his mother, plaintiff Clark. On his way back home, plaintiff McCray was approached by defendant officer and confronted about money and drugs. Plaintiff McCray did not know what defendant officer was talking about. Defendant officers then grabbed plaintiff and threw him against a wall. Plaintiff McCray called out to plaintiff Clark, and defendant officers pointed a gun to plaintiff Clark and held plaintiff McCray. Plaintiff McCray was arrested, and dragged to a nearby hub where he was strip-searched.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=D3rf4I8R_PLUS_PBsZvKsBrxJkg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Bates, Steven vs Fleming, Christopher, et al.","start_date":"2016-12-01","disposition_date":"2017-02-24","payout_amount":6700,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV09506","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Kelly, Robert V.","summary":"On January 8, 2015, multiple police officers, including police officer Sid Caesar, stopped and searched the plaintiff. The police did not find anything. Plaintiff asked officers why they stopped him, and police told him to stop talking and threw him against a wall, grabbed and twisted his arms, and handcuffed the plaintiff in tight handcuffs which created pain and left marks on his wrists. The officers then drove aggressively to the 25th precinct without restraining and protecting the plaintiff with a seatbelt, which caused the plaintiff to injure his head, neck, body, and limbs. The plaintiff waited for arraignment for 24 hours, and his charge of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree was later dismissed.\nIn making out charges against the plaintiff, police officers Caesar, Christopher Fleming, Gregory Carty, Robert Kelly, and Angus McKenzie all prepared false sworn affidavits and false police reports, and falsified information related to the arrest. They forwarded this false information to the Bronx DA.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.450801/gov.uscourts.nysd.450801.17.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13347050/bates-v-fleming/"},{"name":"Armstrong, Joshua vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-11-16","disposition_date":"2020-04-10","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"158455/2016","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Kelly, Robert V.","summary":"On December 13, 2014, at approximately 5:00 PM, Plaintiff Joshua Armstrong, a Black man, was inside Prince Deli & Grocery on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan when members of the NYPD including Defendants Detective Sid Caesar, Detective Gregory Carty, Detective Manuel Cordova, Detective Jeff Harris, Sergeant Robert Kelly, and Detective Angus Mackenzie. Defendant Detective Caesar, without just cause or provocation, struck Plaintiff causing Plaintiff to sustain serious physical injuries. Each of the Defendants failed to intervene to stop the offense. The Defendants thereafter handcuffed Plaintiff and placed him under arrest for criminal sale of a controlled substance and initiated criminal proceedings against him, despite the Defendants’ knowledge that they lacked reasonable grounds or probable cause for doing so. Defendants did not make a full statement of facts to the District Attorney, withheld exculpatory evidence, and acted with malice in initiating and continuing criminal proceedings against Plaintiff. Defendants were motivated in part by the NYPD's custom of targeting minority males to meet arrest quotas.\n\nPlaintiff was taken to the 25th Precinct for processing, thereafter to Manhattan Central Booking for arraignment, and then to Rikers Island. Plaintiff was incarcerated from December 13, 2014 until December 17, 2014, when he was released from custody. On August 5, 2015, Plaintiff was acquitted of all charges. As a result of the incident and ensuing wrongful arrest, Plaintiff has sustained physical injuries, emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation, and deprivation of his constitutional rights.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=_PLUS_IrqDHqVr_PLUS_rpcyDK2ZUPuA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"White, Anthony, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-10-26","disposition_date":"2019-10-25","payout_amount":36000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"16CV06925","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Kelly, Robert V.","summary":"On June 4, 2015, plaintiffs were seated in a parked motor vehicle when defendant officers ordered plaintiffs out of the vehicle, arrested and tightly handcuffed them despite lacking probable cause. Plaintiffs were unlawfully searched and strip-searched. Criminal proceedings were commenced against plaintiffs based on false evidence created and manufactured by defendant officers. All charges were ultimately dimissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.462323.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4524389/white-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"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":"Kelly, Robert","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":"Ortiz, Simon vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-04-15","disposition_date":"2015-11-03","payout_amount":12000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV02915","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Kelly, Robert","summary":"On July 11, 2014, Plaintiff Simon Ortiz was present in his local Harlem bodega.  Defendant police officer Jeff Harris approached Plaintiff and asked \"Do you know who I am?\"  Plaintiff did not know who Harris was, and so ignored him.  Defendant Harris began shouting \"Do you know who I am?\" at Plaintiff.  Harris then stuck his hands inside Plaintiff's pocket, planted an illicit substance in the pocket, pulled the substance out, and stated \"look what I got here.\"  Plaintiff was then violently removed from the bodega, thrown against the building, and very tightly handcuffed.  Plaintiff was taken to a local precinct, strip-searched, held for 24 hours, and charged with possession of heroin.  After numerous court appearances at which Defendants failed to appear, charges against plaintiff were terminated.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.440991/gov.uscourts.nysd.440991.9.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13246135/ortiz-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Edwards, Glenn, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-03-26","disposition_date":"2019-06-04","payout_amount":200000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"17CV02566","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Kelly, Robert","summary":"On May 8, 2014, P.O.s Jamal Hairston, Oscar Fernandez, Robert Kelly, Evaristus Uke, and Keith Carpenter forcibly entered plaintiffs' residence.  They physically seized plaintiffs, pointed weapons at them, forced them to the ground, and forcibly applied handcuffs to them.  The officers kept plaintiffs handcuffed for over three hours.  One of the plaintiffs was naked when the officers entered the apartment and handcuffed her, and the officers compelled her to remain naked.  The officers initiated false criminal charges against plaintiffs, and P.O. Hairston made false statements to the DA in support of those charges.  The officers also initiated a civil action with Child Protective Services against plaintiffs, falsely accusing them of selling drugs in the presence of their granddaughter.  Plaintiffs were required to appear in court on several occasions and undergo interviews and interrogation by CPS.  All criminal charges against plaintiffs were dismissed on the merits on October 6, 2014.  On May 11, 2015, the administrative charges against plaintiffs by CPS were also dismissed. \n\nAgain on February 19, 2016, P.O. Gregory Carty and other officers forcibly entered plaintiffs' residence, forcibly seized plaintiffs, and detained them.  P.O. Carty initiated false criminal charges against one of the plaintiffs in retaliation for plaintiffs having commenced a suit against the City of New York and the officers. The criminal proceeding terminated in favor of plaintiff, as P.O. Carty did not process the summons.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4925518-Edwards-et-al-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.472173/gov.uscourts.nysd.472173.1.7.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6246093/edwards-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Siler, Omar vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-01-13","disposition_date":"2015-06-29","payout_amount":17000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV00189","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Kelly, Robert","summary":"On May 31, 2014, the Plaintiff, Mr. Omar Siler, was sitting outside his friend's apartment building, waiting to be buzzed into the building. A man leaving the building held the door open for Mr. Siler, and as Mr. Siler approached the door, a Defendant undercover NYPD officer in plain clothes, who did not identify himself, chased Mr. Siler into the building, up to the roof, and down the fire escape to the building's backyard. Once Mr. Siler reached the backyard, a group of individual defendant officers standing behind a gate shouted at him to get on the ground, while one pointed his gun at him. Mr. Siler lay on the ground. For a few minutes, the defendants tried to figure out how to get around the gate and into the backyard. During this time, they continued shouting at him. This include curses and threats to shoot him if he moved. When one defendant finally reached Mr. Siler, he kicked and stomped Mr. Siler repeatedly in the shoulder, torso, and head, and viciously pulled Mr. Siler's arm behind his back while still applying force to his prone torso. That defendant then handcuffed Mr. Siler behind his back and took him to the front of the building. There, one of the defendants strip searched Mr. Siler, and inserted his fingers into his anus to search his anal cavity. No drugs or contraband were recovered from this search. \nMr. Siler was placed in a police van, where he was kept for about six hours while the police picked up other arrestees. Then, he was taken to a precinct, where he was again strip searched. This search involved an order to Mr. Siler to manipulate his genitals as well as a visual inspection of his anus. At the precinct, Defendant NYPD Detective Harris tried to convince Mr. Siler to confess to selling drugs. After a few hours at the Precinct, Mr. Siler was taken to Central Booking. The DA declined to press charges. Plaintiff was brought before a judge on a separate earlier unresolved charge, which the judge dismissed on the spot, setting Mr. Siler free immediately. After he was released, Mr. Siler went to the hospital, because he needed treatment due to the beating he received from the police.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.437149/gov.uscourts.nysd.437149.9.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17493888/siler-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Torres, Marc Anthony vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-01-31","disposition_date":"2014-08-01","payout_amount":33000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV00502","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Kelly, Robert","summary":"Defendant Plainclothes Officers stopped Plaintiff on the street and arrested him, took him to the 25th precinct and strip-searched him, and charged him with 220.39(1) crim sale of a controlled substance in the 3rd degree, which were later dismissed by the DA.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920043-Torres-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13056423/torres-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"officer_name":"Kelly, Robert V.","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2012-10-12","disposition_date":"2013-07-09","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","docket":"12CV07509","name":"Mcgill, Torrance vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":85000,"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309099/mcgill-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419212-nypd-cases-266.html"}],"socials":[{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kelly-6387779b","type":"linkedin"}],"id":"SRFX","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/SRFX"}