{"active":true,"first_name":"Nicholas","last_name":"Vandyke","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"LT CD","command":{"command":"MSS TF","assignment_date":"2024-10-28","id":"850"},"taxid":"927819","complaint_ids":[202001551,201203655,201201695,201115628,200812290,200805105,200601208,200508646],"command_history":[{"command":"DB CEIS","id":"94"},{"command":"GVSD Z1","id":"236"},{"command":"NARCBQS","id":"132"},{"command":"101 PCT","id":"101pct"},{"command":"083 PCT","id":"83pct"},{"command":"GANG QS"}],"appt_date":"2001-07-01","age":47,"middle_initial":"V","shield_no_history":[18150,2363],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Steward, St. Clair vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-08-20","disposition_date":"2021-04-11","payout_amount":125000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"714217/2019","court":"Supreme Court - Queens","officer_name":"Vandyke, Nicholas V.","summary":"Plaintiff St. Clair Steward served over two and a half months on Rikers Island after being wrongfully arrested and charged with an attempted murder he did not commit.\n\nOn January 30th, 2018, K.W. was sitting in his car in Queens when an unknown perpetrator approached him and asked for directions accompanied by Gregory Campbell, who bore a firearm. Campbell fired the gun twice at K.W., striking the car door, though K.W. could not clearly see the shooter.\n\nNYPD officers take DNA samples from the scene of the crime; officers Michael Cerullo, Christopher Dantonio, and Charles Venticinque interviewed K.W. and solicit mug shot identifications, which produce 2788 potential matches. Plaintiff St. Clair Steward is selected from this set of potential matches as someone who may have resembled the shooter. Video footage was provided that made it clear that K.W. could not have gotten a clear look at the shooter during the crime, but Detective Dantonio withheld this footage from the Queens District Attorney.\n\nOn January 31st, 2018, Plaintiff Steward was arrested at his home solely due to the mugshot identification. His DNA sample is taken but not compared with the DNA on the door handle. On February 1st, Detective received a warrant to search Steward's house. Said search did not produce any evidence. Nevertheless, though no forensic or other evidence connected Steward to the attempted robbery or murder, he was charged with attempted robbery and murder and sent to Rikers Island with bail set at $200,000.\n\nOn April 2nd, 2018, Detective Dantonio finally requested that the lab compare Steward's DNA to the DNA on the door handle. \n\nOn April 5th, 2018, DNA gathered from the driver's side door returned as a match to Gregory Campbell, a known felon.  Detectives Dantonio and Venticinque, Sergeant Barbieri, and Lieutenants Nicholas VanDyke and Stephen Faber did not forward this information to the Queens District Ottorney. \n\nOn April 16th, 2018, the lab report showed that Steward's DNA did not match the DNA found on the door handle. On April 18th, 2018, Steward was released from Riker's Island. Nevertheless, he made several court appearances before his case was ultimately dismissed in September, 2019.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=4NRbUetlGoi72UXecJbmVw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Jones, Troy vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-04-07","disposition_date":"2015-05-14","payout_amount":20000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV02094","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Van Dyke, Nicholas V.","summary":"On or about December 28, 2011, Plaintiff left his residence with the intention of paying a visit to a neighbor. The two had spoken earlier that day and it was understood that Plaintiff would stop by that afternoon. Plaintiff walked around the corner to his neighbor’s building and rang the buzzer three times. When no one answered he left. P.O. Kelvin Perez was observing the building when he saw Plaintiff walking away. P.O. Perez ordered the stop of Plaintiff. Plaintiff was then accosted by P.O. Derek Almeida, P.O. Michele Herbst, and Sergeant Nicholas Vandyke, who emerged from an unmarked police vehicle. Plaintiff immediately stopped moving. P.O. Almeida frisked plaintiff, and then stuck his hands into the pockets of Plaintiff’s pants and coat, which he forcibly removed and handed to P.O. Herbst, who searched it further. P.O. Almeida then instructed Plaintiff to sit on the hood of the car and remove his shoes and socks, which P.O. Almeida searched. Having found no evidence of contraband whatsoever, P.O. Almeida, supervised by Sergeant Vandyke, handcuffed Plaintiff and placed him in the back seat of an unmarked police vehicle. Plaintiff was taken to the precinct, where P.O. Almeida and Sergeant Vandyke ordered Plaintiff to strip naked. P.O. Almeida then ordered Plaintiff to lift his scrotum, bend over, and cough twice. Plaintiff was then transported to central booking where he was released the next day. Charges for trespassing were later dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.354571/gov.uscourts.nyed.354571.3.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13139086/jones-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Fleming, Rita vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-05-10","disposition_date":"2014-07-29","payout_amount":80000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV02719","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Van Dyke, Nicholas V.","summary":"On September 28, 2012, plaintiff was driving in Queens County and was asked to pull over by a marked police van. The officers left the marked police van, approached plaintiff's vehicle, and one of the officers forcibly and physically dragged plaintiff out of her vehicle. One of the officers forcibly twisted the plaintiff's left arm then handcuffed her. Multiple officers lifted the plaintiff off her feet and repeatedly slammed the plaintiff into the side of the police van and slammed plaintiff's face into the window of the van.\n\nPlaintiff was dragged by one of the officers through the 113th precinct parking lot and after arrest processing, requested medical assistance due to asthma. While receiving medical assistance, Lieutenant Van Dyke grabbed plaintiff's right hand and twisted it behind her back. Lieutenant Van Dyke directed a present officer to restrain plaintiff's feet in a plastic tie. Officer Michelle Fernandez and another officer violently yanked plaintiff off the bench she was sitting and dragged her across the floor. Later at the hospital, Officer Maricano grabbed plaintiff's arm, twisted it back, there her onto a bench and cuffed her to a bar.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.342528/gov.uscourts.nyed.342528.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13049545/fleming-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Bethea v. The City of New York","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","summary":"While Plaintiff was walking down the street, a plainclothes officer roughly pushed him toward a gate and attacked him. Other defendant officers came and joined in the assault or failed to intervene. Plaintiff was taken to the 83rd precinct, unlawfully strip-searched, and charged with disorderly conduct, OGA, and resisting arrest. Later, when Plaintiff arrived at his court date, he was told he case was not on the calendar.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4918833-Bethea-v-The-City-of-New-York"}],"docket":"09CV00612","officer_name":"Nicholas V. Vandyke"},{"name":"Parrish v. City of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","disposition":"Order/Judgment (Verdict)","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4918640-Parrish-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"07CV00440","officer_name":"Nicholas V. Vandyke"}],"discipline":[{"case_no":"2013-9845","disposition_date":"2015-05-29","penalty":"Respondent was found Not Guilty","opened_date":"2014-02-14","charges":[{"desc":"Said officer abused his authority as a member of the New York City Police Department, in that he participated in the unlawful stop of a person known to the Department","disposition":"Not Guilty"}],"documents":[{"name":"Document","url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419002-nypd-cases-227.html"}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22119510-927819_05292015_2015176pdf","date":"2015-05-29T00:00:00.000Z","type":"trial-decision"}],"payroll":{"salary":"170234","regular":"168307","overtime":"71427","other":"26121","total":"265856"},"id":"W38B","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/W38B"}