{"active":false,"first_name":"Darrel","last_name":"Oneill","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"MP SQD","assignment_date":"2015-05-04","id":"149"},"shield_no":2206,"ended_date":"2021-08-02","taxid":"939149","complaint_ids":[201409014,201205972,201115071,200609165],"command_history":[{"command":"PSA 5","id":"PSA5"},{"command":"NARCBMN","id":"250"}],"appt_date":"2005-07-11","age":51,"middle_initial":"A","shield_no_history":[22302],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Jackson, Jacqueline, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-03-09","disposition_date":"2016-01-04","payout_amount":18000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV01713","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"O'Neill, Darrel","summary":"On May 24, 2012, April 19, 2014, and May 29, 2014, Plaintiff DeShawn Strong, a black man with no criminal record, has been repeatedly targeted by the police, without probable cause or any valid reason.  This suit is brought by Plaintiffs Jacqueline Jackson (\"Plaintiff Jackson\"), DeShawn Strong (\"Plaintiff Strong\"), Jacqueline S. Jackson (\"Plaintiff S. Jackson\") Individually and as the Next Friend of Jashawna Strong, an infant (\"Jashawna\"), against Defendants City of New York, NYPD Officer Darrell O'Neill and John and Jane Does #1-10.  On May 24, 2012, Plaintiff Strong was acting lawfully and was suddenly apprehended by police and, without probable cause, charged with various crimes related to assault.  Plaintiff Strong was held at central booking for 24 hours, arraigned and held on bail he could not post for at least 5 days, and then released because the prosecution could not obtain an indictment.  The case proceeded for several months until dismissed for lack of probable cause.  On April 19, 2014, Plaintiff Strong was approached on the street by two officers who arrested him, stating that they had seen him trespassing at 1295 Amsterdam Avenue.  Plaintiff Strong had permission to visit his cousin, who lives in an apartment at that address.  Plaintiff Strong was taken to the precinct and held for approximately 10 hours until his arraignment on April 20, 2014, where the case was dismissed.  On May 29, 2014, at around 6am, Plaintiff Strong and his then-6-year-old daughter Jashawna were present at the apartment where Jashawna lives with Plaintiff S. Jackson, Jashawna's mother, and Plaintiff Jackson, Jashawna's grandmother.  Plaintiffs S. Jackson and Jackson were not present at the time.  About 8 police officers broke down the door with a battering ram and entered the apartment with guns drawn.  Plaintiff Strong ran to Jashawna's bedroom and one or more officers shoved him on the bed as Jashawna was screaming, then grabbed Jashawna and handcuffed Plaintiff Strong.  Officers brought Plaintiff Strong to the living room and threw him on the couch face first, separated from his daughter.  Oddly, one of the officers ordered Jashawna to take a bath.  Officers used a battering ram to open Plaintiff Jackson's room, which she keeps locked due to the presence of legal prescription medications.  There was no contraband or illegal substances in Plaintiff Jackson's room or elsewhere in the apartment.  The officers had a search warrant for the apartment, naming an individual that vaguely described Plaintiff Strong, who does not live at the apartment.  The warrant suggested that Plaintiff Strong was using the apartment as a location to distribute crack and that officers expected to find cash, cocaine, and burner cell phones.  This warrant was apparently prepared by Defendant O'Neill based on unreliable information from a confidential informant.  This raid damaged property and left the apartment in a bad condition.  One or more of the officers falsely claimed to have found something under the air conditioner outside of the house between the B and C line, which is physically impossible, as such location could only be reached from outside the building.  Plaintiff Strong was held for a total of 18 hours (in a van for 1.5 hours, at the precinct for 7 hours, and then at central booking) and was falsely charged with various offenses including two felonies and two misdemeanors.  Plaintiff Strong was placed into an alternative to bail program, because it would have been his first offense if found guilty, and had to report repeatedly to the alternative to bail program.  He lost his job as a security guard.  Plaintiff Strong's attorney demanded that the judge examine the affidavit provided by Defendant O'Neill to the warranting judge to convert the warrant, but the prosecution refused, and the case was dismissed and sealed.  At or following the raid on the apartment, one of the NYPD officers, for no reason, called Child Welfare, which investigated and required everyone in the home to come to its offices and take drug tests, which came back negative.  The Administration for Children's Services found that the report from Child Welfare was \"indicated,\" meaning that there was some evidence that Jashawna had been maltreated, which was not the case.  As a result of the \"indicated\" report, Plaintiff S. Jackson (who was not even present at the time of the raid) cannot adopt, take custody, be a foster parent, or work in a child-care setting.  The family is now in danger of losing its apartment, with the worry and stress requiring Plaintiff Jackson to take sleep medications.  Jashawna has been left traumatized.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.439325/gov.uscourts.nysd.439325.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13145990/jackson-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Almanzar, Abraham vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-05-05","disposition_date":"2014-10-31","payout_amount":15000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV03090","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"O'Neill, Darrel","summary":"On March 4, 2013, Plaintiff was in his car after dropping his child off from school, waiting for a parking spot to open, when an undercover police officer approached.  The undercover officer, along with Defendant Detective Hamu Hiller, Arlene Conway, Leonid Pysin and Darrel O’Neill, threw Plaintiff to the ground, cuffed him and illegally searched him and his car.  Plaintiff was held in a police van for six hours while unrelated arrests were made, then taken to the 25th Precinct where he was strip searched.  After sleeping on the concrete floor of a holding cell, Plaintiff was arraigned the following day on misdemeanor drug possession charges, despite no drugs being found on him or in his car.  After making multiple court appearances, the charges were dismissed on motion on November 12, 2013.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920154-Almanzar-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.426522.19.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920155-Almanzar-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4353588/almanzar-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Bennett, John vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-08-09","disposition_date":"2014-01-17","payout_amount":29000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV05558","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"O'Neill, Darrel","summary":"On October 23, 2012, Plaintiff was lawfully present in front of a bodega. Plaintiff was suddenly accosted by the NYPD members, including Defendants DET. ALEXANDER SOSA, P.O. KEVIN STEWART, and UNDERCOVER C0106, LT. JUSTIN HOFFMAN, DET. NELSON PABONE, DET. DARREL O’NEILL. Defendants handcuffed Plaintiff and placed him under arrest on drug charges probable cause. Defendants transported Plaintiff to the 25th Precinct and to Manhattan Central Booking. At Plaintiff’s arraignment, bail was set because of Defendants’ false statements. Plaintiff could not make bail and, therefore, remained in custody for approximately forty-eight hours. Defendants initiated criminal proceedings against Plaintiff without probable cause. On or about March 26, 2013, all charges against Plaintiff were dismissed for facial insufficiency.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.416119/gov.uscourts.nysd.416119.7.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13054917/bennett-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22119855-939149_11012017_2017099pdf","date":"2017-11-01T00:00:00.000Z","type":"trial-decision"}],"id":"WRVM","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/WRVM"}