{"active":false,"first_name":"Luis","last_name":"Arocho","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"NARCBBN","id":"92"},"shield_no":41,"ended_date":"2017-09-01","taxid":"915249","complaint_ids":[201600735,200302630],"command_history":[{"command":"PBBN","id":"PBBN"}],"appt_date":"1995-06-30","lawsuits":[{"name":"Progressive Casualty Insurance Company vs Gladstone, Jon, et al.","start_date":"2026-06-09","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"520533/2026","court":"Supreme Court - Kings"},{"name":"Whitaker, Mondaray vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-01-15","disposition_date":"2021-04-09","payout_amount":20000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"18CV06897","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Arocho, Luis D.","summary":"On August 17, 2016, defendant officers PO Rene Castellano [Sheild # 2610] arrested the plaintiff without cause and charged plaintiff with PL 220.21, PL 265.01, PL 221.05, PL 165.40. However, the plaintiff was not in possession of any controlled substance, weapon, or stolen property and did not commit any offense. Before his arrest, the Plaintiff was fixing a car with his friend and saw police officers enter a house about three buildings away. After arresting one guy inside the building, the officers approached the plaintiff and asked what was going on. After telling the officers he was fixing the car, the officer searched the Plaintiff and found nothing illegal. However, the superior officer instructed the officer to bring the plaintiff to the building where the raid took place. The defendants held the plaintiff and his friend on the steps of the house of the raid and tightly handcuffed them to perform a search of the plaintiff, resulting in finding no contraband on the plaintiff. When asked for the reason of his arrest, the officers claimed that the plaintiff had obstructed their entry into the premises and that they found the plaintiff in the backroom of the house where the raid took place with a backpack full of drugs. However, the plaintiff was actually arrested on the street more than 100 feet from said house.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.426238/gov.uscourts.nyed.426238.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8387323/whitaker-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Santiago, George vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-06-12","disposition_date":"2018-02-01","payout_amount":14500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"17CV03175","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Arocho, Luis D.","summary":"On July 9, 2015, Plaintiff was on the street in Brooklyn, New York, when he was grabbed from behind. A ground of NYPD officers—including Detective Arocho—descended on Plaintiff, punching and kicking him with their fists, feet, arms, and knees. Plaintiff lost consciousness. When he awoke, Plaintiff was shackled to a bed at the hospital with eight stitches in his head and bruises all over his body.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.402160/gov.uscourts.nyed.402160.13.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13440524/santiago-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Vera, Oscar vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-05-31","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"509490/2017","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","officer_name":"Arocho, Luis D.","summary":"\"On March 8, 2016, plaintiff Oscar Vera and a passenger were in plaintiff's vehicle with defendant Sergeant Sean Honstetter standing at the driver side window with his service weapon drawn and defendant Detective Jon Gladstone standing at the passenger window, leaning in and pointing his service weapon at plaintiff. At that time and on the instruction of defendant Detective Julio Micheli, defendant Lieutenant Luis Arocho rammed his police vehicle into the back of plaintiff's vehicle, causing plaintiff's passenger to push defendant Gladstone's arm forward. Defendants Honstetter fired weapon, striking both plaintiff and defendant Gladstone. Defendant Gladstone also fired his weapon. As a result, plaintiff suffered three bullet wounds, one in the left wrist and two in the left leg. Because defendants were not displaying their police badges, plaintiff exclaimed that he had been shot and asked someone to call the police, not realizing defendants were police officers.\nDefendants Honstetter and Detective Steven LaFortune then pulled plaintiff from the vehicle and threw him to the ground and hit him with their pistols, even after plaintiff was handcuffed. Plaintiff was then placed in an ambulance and took him to the hospital. \nDefendant Detective Adam Wright signed a criminal complaint accusing plaintiff of narcotics offenses, aggravated assault upon a police officer and reckless endangerment, and a grand jury indicted plaintiff.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=lscK8s5dGIe1Q8_PLUS_5otzFvA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Drayton, Godborn, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-09-03","disposition_date":"2017-04-03","payout_amount":28000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV04951","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Arocho, Luis D.","summary":"Defendant Officers forcibly entered Plaintiff's apartment arrested them, and took them to the 84th Precinct.  Excessive force was used to execute the arrest.  Plaintiffs were charged criminally (charges not specified in complaint)","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920990-Drayton-et-al-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.374526.21.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4324718/drayton-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"WSFR","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/WSFR"}