{"active":false,"first_name":"Raymond","last_name":"Higgins","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"070 DET","assignment_date":"2016-06-29","id":"70det"},"shield_no":3230,"ended_date":"2024-07-02","taxid":"941338","complaint_ids":[202303591,201901243,201504141,201506328,201016221,200900162,200816603,200803645],"command_history":[{"command":"070 PCT","id":"70pct"},{"command":"PBBS SU"}],"appt_date":"2006-07-20","age":46,"middle_initial":"M","shield_no_history":[28788],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Campbell, Jason vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2023-05-16","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"23CV02872","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","summary":"On March 5, 2021, PO Estharlin Lopez and Detective Vasilios Vasilopoulos executed an illegally obtained search warrant at an unidentified premises related to Plaintiff. The warrant was based on knowingly falsified information and obtained from coercion of an informant. While executing the search Lopez and Vasilopoulos planted and moved weapons and staged photographs to support their false information. Lopez and Vasilopoulos recovered an envelope with Plaintiff’s name on it from the premises that purports to link him to the possession of weapons. On March 8, 2021, Plaintiff was falsely arrested, detained, and taken to Kings County Central Booking by Detective Raymond Higgins where he was charged with numerous weapons possession charges. Due to these false charges, Plaintiff could not post bail and spent 6 weeks in Rikers Island for at least 6 weeks and incurred legal fees in excess of $15,000. After a suppression hearing on March 3, 2023, prosecution moved to dismiss Plaintiff’s indictment and the motion was granted. On March 4, 2021, Plaintiff was brutally assaulted by a person out on bail for second degree murder charges and lawfully defended himself. Detective Higgins coerced the assailant to press charges through threats regarding his pending charges, despite the fact that the assailant was an unreliable witness. On January 13, 2021, Plaintiff was falsely accused of burglarizing his own apartment that he was residing in as a lawful tenant. Plaintiff was falsely arrested by PO Alexander Caballery and taken to Kings County Central Booking where he was arraigned on a felony criminal complaint, despite a complete lack of evidence to substantiate the claims. On May 2022, Plaintiff was unlawfully arrested outside of his lawful residence after calling 911 when he was being attacked by a person for whom he had an order of protection. Despite the fact that Plaintiff did not resist arrest, POs Andrew Demichael, Michael Nuccio, and Amado Lipana struck plaintiff with their boots and closed fists and body slammed him onto the ground face first, where Plaintiff was ultimately rendered unconscious. At Kings County Central Booking the officers falsely claimed that Plaintiff had assaulted them during the arrest, and Plaintiff was charged with numerous assult charges and sent to Rikers Island. All related charges were ultimately dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.495964/gov.uscourts.nyed.495964.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67215812/campbell-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Charles, Sherwin vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-04-26","disposition_date":"2017-08-10","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Order/Judgment (Verdict)","docket":"16CV01797","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Higgins, Raymond","summary":"Defendant officers in plainclothes pulled their unmarked vehicle onto the sidewalk where Plaintiff was walking, searched him, arrested him, and took him to the local precinct. Plaintiff was charged with Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, Criminal Possession of a Firearm, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree. Both criminal and federal charges were later dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.383986.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4325407/charles-v-cromwell/"},{"name":"Hill, Daveion, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-01-27","disposition_date":"2015-04-23","payout_amount":2501,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV05756","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Higgins, Raymond","summary":"On September 29, 2012, when Plaintiffs were outside their home, they noticed a black car that resembled a black car that had previously been stalking plaintiff Roxroy Hill pulled up in front of their home .The defendant officers all in plain clothes rapidly emerged from the black car with their guns drawn and pointed at\nplaintiffs. Plaintiff Roxroy ran inside for cover, while Plaintiff Daveion froze on the stairs out of fear. The defendants then instructed plaintiff Daveion to get on\nthe floor started asking him where the gun was, to which he replied that he had no idea. However the defendant officers repeatedly told him to stop lying and placed him in handcuffs.  Meanwhile, the other defendant officers, kicked in the front door to plaintiffs’ home and ran inside with their guns drawn pointed at plaintiff Roxroy. Notwithstanding that plaintiff Roxroy was laying flat face down on the floor, and not a threat to the defendant officers or any other person, the defendant officers were standing and kneeing on him with so much weight. They asked him where the gun was and called him Mike.  Plaintiff Roxroy said he was not Mike, but the defendant officers refused to listen and as one of the officers kept applying pressure to plaintiff’s knee, another defendant officer kept hitting plaintiff in the head with the muzzle of the defendant officer’s gun. He was taken to the police car, when the defendant officers searched plaintiffs' entire home, trashing and destroying plaintiffs’ rooms and other rooms in the house. Eventually one of the defendant officer’s took the plaintiffs’ Id and came back a few minutes later and\napologized to plaintiff Roxroy, finally addressing him as Mr. Hill and stating that they had made a mistake, and the he was going to have plaintiffs released in a few minutes. \n\nHowever, later they were not released but instead the defendant officers booked and charged the plaintiffs with menacing in the 2nd degree with a weapon, amongst other criminal charges. They were later transferred to the criminal court. In both places, they were detained without any food, drink or access to a functional restroom facility. Defendants made false statements to the DA, and Plaintiffs remained in the detention of the defendants for a second day, before the plaintiffs were brought before a judge of the criminal court. Plaintiffs were released on their own recognizance and caused to return to court two more times before the case was dismissed on January 15, 2013.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.348145/gov.uscourts.nyed.348145.9.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13138425/hill-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"officer_name":"Higgins, Raymond","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2010-03-09","disposition_date":"2014-07-23","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","docket":"004879/2010","name":"Wynne, Afrik vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":65000}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21024250-higgins-c1ddc559f845a2ef68d3adb373f22e06d82c7a36","type":"brady-giglio","lawsuits":["11CV3926","10CV5242"]},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21056284-higgins-941338-09-14-20","type":"brady-giglio"}],"id":"TFMX","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/TFMX"}