{"active":true,"first_name":"Christopher","last_name":"Crain","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"LT","command":{"command":"049 DET","assignment_date":"2024-03-13","id":"49det"},"taxid":"933719","complaint_ids":[202402408,202400056,202311904,202309527,202309444,202306625,202305508,202304232,202309668,202303281,202302435,202303889,201908431,201805188,201708598,201706153,201605621,201602469,201111407,200916677,200804389,200709944,200705138],"command_history":[{"command":"048 PCT","id":"48pct"},{"command":"040 PCT","id":"40pct"},{"command":"044 PCT","id":"44pct"}],"appt_date":"2004-01-20","middle_initial":"M","shield_no_history":[3856,1266],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Green, Kenton vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2026-04-29","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"806962/2026E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx"},{"name":"Rojas, Elvin vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2025-04-10","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"808068/2025E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx"},{"name":"Caldwell, Kirk & Villega, Dashawan vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2025-03-20","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"801483/2025E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx"},{"name":"Braimah, Inuwa vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2024-12-03","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"819614/2024E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","summary":"On or about April 13, 2023, Plaintiff parked his vehicle, exited, and began walking on the street when Defendant NYPD officers Hennessy, Fitzgerald, and Crain aggressively approached Plaintiff. They called out to him by name, ordered him to stop walking, and requested Plaintiff's identification. Plaintiff complied with all their orders. Despite this, the Defendants assaulted, questioned, searched, and detained Plaintiff, all without legal cause or justification. The Defendants accused Plaintiff of numerous criminal offenses without any probable cause. They then took the Plaintiff's car keys from his person, entered his car without permission, and removed the car from its legal parking spot to be hold in police custody as invoice property without any probable cause.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=3vfOpmpwYPZ63HbxyBtsXQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Barry, Mamadou T. vs The City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2024-06-11","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"809289/2024E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","summary":"On or about March 17th, 2023, PO Juan Martinezcabrera, PO Lamik Fitzgerald and PO Christopher Crain forcibly stopped, seized and searched Plaintiff on the street. After the search revealed that Plaintiff was not in possession of any contraband or evidence of a crime, he was released. Plaintiff then took out his cell phone to record the PO's and asked them to identify themselves. PO Martinezcabrera then punched Plaintiff in the face. The PO's then violently forced Plaintiff to the ground, kicking and punching him, and then handcuffing him. Plaintiff was then taken to the Precinct for booking. \n\nOn that same night, PO's initiated legal proceedings against Plaintiff, falsely alleging that Plaintiff had resisted arrest and kicked the door of their police vehicle. On July 7th, 2023, all charges against plaintiff were dismissed and all criminal proceedings terminated in Plaintiff's favor.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240814070138/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=whU_PLUS_6G7y8PKoMkYmYepbWg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Benjamin, Dushawn V. City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2024-04-03","disposition_date":"2025-03-18","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"805489/2024E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx"},{"name":"Surgeon, Dante, et Al vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2021-06-11","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"807031/2021E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Crain, Christopher M.","summary":"On or about July 27, 2019 at approximately 1:45 a.m. Plaintiffs Surgeon and Fenner were lawfully inside a motor vehicle when POs Luke Brennan, Robert Cabrera, Christopher Crain, and John or Jane Does 1-10 approached and unlawfully questioned Plaintiffs regarding illegal activity. POs then threw Plaintiff Surgeon against a wall, causing scrapes and bruises on his face, eye, knees, arms, and punched him in his eye. POs also threw Plaintiff Fenner headfirst into the car then the ground. Both Plaintiffs had handcuffs placed on them that were too tight. POs constructed a false narrative wherein Plaintiffs allegedly resisted arrest, among other crimes. Plaintiffs were taken to the 44th Precinct where they were criminally processed and wrongfully incarcerated over the course of 18 hours. The malicious prosecution of the Plaintiffs was terminated in Plaintiffs' on January 31, 2020. The incident was motivated by the POs' racially discriminatory beliefs, which compelled them to equate Plaintiffs' ethnic or national origin to criminal guilt or criminal knowledge.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=9BWgT_PLUS_Z_PLUS_zMTL8ND7o8lDeQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Surgeon, Dante, et Al vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-06-11","disposition_date":"2025-06-27","payout_amount":45000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"808031/2021E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","summary":"On or about July 27, 2019, at approximately 1:45 A.M., Plaintiff was in the vicinity of the intersection of Townsend Avenue and East 1713t Street within County of the Bronx, State of New York, lawfully sitting inside a motor vehicle when the\nDefendants, including NYPD Police Officer Luke Brennan (shield #1019), Robert Cabrera (shield #21253), Christopher Crain (shield #1266) and John or Jane Doe #s 1-10, approached to them. The Defendants, including Brennan, Cabrera, Crain and John or Jane Doe #s 1-10, unlawfully questioned the Plaintiffs regarding illegal activity, despite possessing no valid reason to inquire, as no criminal activity was present or even reasonably suspected. The Defendants, including Brennan, Cabrera, Crain and John or Jane Doe #s 1-10 forcibly threw the Plaintiff, Mr. Surgeon against the wall, causing scrapes and bruises on his face, eye, knees, arms and laceration on his face, punching him in his eye, causing swelling in his eye and throwing him to the ground. At no time did Mr. Surgeon give Defendants,  a reason to use physical force. The Defendants', including Brennan, Cabrera, Crain and John or Jane Doe #s 1-10 then forcibly threw the Plaintiff, Mr. Fenner's face and head against the vehicle and threw him to the ground.\n\nThe Defendants, including Brennan, Cabrera, Crain and John or Jane Doe #s 1-10\nhad no probable cause or reasonable suspicion to arrest, detain or stop Plaintiffs, as Plaintiffs had not committed any crime or violation of the law. The Defendants, \nfabricated a false narrative, in which they claimed that the Plaintiff, Mr. Surgeon committed one (1) count of Resisting Arrest, one (1) count of Criminal Mischief in the fourth degree, one (1) count of Unlawful Possession of Marijuana and one (1) count of Disorderly Conduct to place him under arrest, when they knew such claims to be untrue and complete fabrications. The Defendants also fabricated a false narrative, in which they claimed that the Plaintiff, Mr. Fenner committed one (1) count of Resisting Arrest, one (1) count of Obstructing Governmental Administration in the second degree and one (1) count of Harassment in the second degree to place him under arrest, when they knew such claims to be untrue and complete fabrications. The Plaintiffs were transported by Defendants to the NYPD 44th Precinct, where they were illegally searched, photographed and fingerprinted. Plaintiffs were wrongfully incarcerated over the course of eighteen (18) hours. As a direct and proximate result of the acts of Defendants, the Plaintiffs suffered physical injury, physical pain and suffering, emotional trauma and suffering, including fear, embarrassment, humiliation, emotional distress, frustration, extreme inconvenience, anxiety, loss of liberty and harm to reputation. The Defendants' malicious prosecutions against Plaintiffs were terminated in\nPlaintiffs' favor on January 31, 2020, when all charges were unconditionally and outright dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=9BWgT_PLUS_Z_PLUS_zMTL8ND7o8lDeQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Jarvis, Roland vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2020-11-17","disposition_date":"2021-06-16","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"20CV08341","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Crain, Christopher M.","summary":"On May 4, 2018, plaintiff was meeting with friends to leave for a party when four unidentified plainsclothes police officers, Anthony Cassase, Daniel Maria, Robert Cabrera, and Sergeant Crane, approached. Plaintiff began to walk away when an officer tackled him to the ground and searched him, finding a handgun. Plaintiff was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Plaintiff was held in jail for over a year after his indictment; the case was dismissed on July 2, 2019 on grounds that it was an illegal search.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.545768/gov.uscourts.nysd.545768.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18511674/jarvis-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Watson, Tyler, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2020-08-31","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"029398/2020","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Crain, Christopher M.","summary":"On or about July 27, 2019, in the Bronx NY, Plaintiffs were all walking home for a local eatery, towards their respective homes, when they stopped, handcuffed and arrested by Defendants NYPD Officers Cabera, Crain, and Brennan. At no time did Plaintiff engage in any illegal or unlawful activity. After being falsely arrested, while inside of Central Booking, Plaintiffs were forced to\nremain inside of a holding cell for hours with numerous other people who harassed them, a holding cell without a working toilet. Each were charged with Disorderly Conduct and Resisting Arrest, charges which were eventually dropped.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=5GEXtRZKh6jwYyEum6rMxg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Perez, Thomas vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-03-26","disposition_date":"2022-08-25","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"19CV02351","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Crain, Christopher M.","summary":"On October 17, 2017, at approximately 12:05 AM, the plaintiff, a Hispanic male, while walking home on the street, was arrested by defendant police officers in front of 1139 Clay Avenue near the intersection with 167th St. in the Bronx.  While plaintiff was walking home, the three defendant police officers were in an unmarked black car and began following the plaintiff in their car.  When the plaintiff was just a few blocks from his house, the three defendant police officers pulled up behind the plaintiff and got out of their car.  One of the officers yelled at the plaintiff to slow down, without making the plaintiff aware that he was a police officer.  Two of the officers walked up to the plaintiff and violently grabbed him from behind and threw him into the wall of a nearby building.  The third officer began punching the plaintiff on various parts of his body, and the other two officers joined in, hitting and kicking the plaintiff in various parts of his body as well.  The officers then threw the plaintiff to the ground and kneed, kicked, and punched him all over his body.  They scraped the plaintiff's hands on the concrete ground, causing severe bruises.  The officers handcuffed the plaintiff, who asked the officers why he was being arrested.  The officers told him that he had beat up a little girl.  Plaintiff was searched on the street, but nothing illegal was found on his body.  Then one of the officers lowered the plaintiff's pants and touched plaintiff's genitals for a few minutes.  Plaintiff was transported to the 44th Precinct, where he was processed and searched again - one of the officers again touched plaintiff's genitals. Plaintiff was detained until 8 PM on October 8, 2017.  Plaintiff was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, among other charges.  On February 14, 2019, all charges were dismissed.  \n\nIn a separate incident, on March 18, 2016 at approximately 1:30 AM, the plaintiff was arrested by defendant police officer Rattan and other unnamed officers near 235 2nd Avenue, New York, while walking on the street.   The officers violently grabbed the plaintiff and threw him to the ground, beaten and kicked all over his body, causing him to suffer injuries to his head and other parts of his body.  Plaintiff told the defendants that he had done nothing wrong and there was no reason to arrest or assault him on his birthday.  He was arrested on the street, searched, and nothing illegal was found on him.  Plaintiff was transported to the 13th Precinct, where he was later charged with criminal possession of marijuana in the fifth degree and resisting arrest.  He was released on bail.  On September 27, 2016, all charges were dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.511914/gov.uscourts.nysd.511914.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14723065/perez-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Blige, Jacob vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2018-04-05","disposition_date":"2018-12-20","payout_amount":30000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"022740/2018E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Crain, Christopher M.","summary":"On 01/14/2017, plaintiff Jacob Blige was falsely arrested and unjustly imprisoned by NYPD officers. He was brutally detained and falsely imprisoned. He was stopped and interrogated without probable cause, and then imprisoned.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=MOBqUlYRxFFKALa85kSosw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Lindo, Jammal and Edwards, Norman vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-02-21","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"300765/2014","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Crain, Christopher"},{"officer_name":"Crain, Christopher M.","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2013-01-23","disposition_date":"2013-06-18","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","docket":"13CV00256","name":"Collier, Michael vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":47000,"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17485937/collier-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"discipline":[{"disposition_date":"2021-02-03","case_no":"2021-23087","penalty":"Vacation days (5 days)","charges":[{"desc":"Improper strip-search","disposition":"Pleaded Guilty"}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28435696-933719_05152026_2026027pdf/","date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z","type":"trial-decision"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22118930-933719_01102019_2019062pdf","date":"2019-01-10T00:00:00.000Z","type":"trial-decision"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"}],"payroll":{"salary":"142202","regular":"137709","overtime":"57308","other":"23214","total":"218231"},"id":"VZUV","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/VZUV"}