Complaint #200714219,
September 27, 2007

Summary

On September 27, 2007, at approximately 1:00 PM, [redacted] left his home, which is located at [redacted] in the Bronx. [redacted] walked to a Chinese food restaurant on [redacted] ordered take-out and then left the restaurant. At this time, PO Michael Cuadra and PO Nicolas Dipardo of the 43rd Precinct SNEU team were parked outside of the Chinese food restaurant. PO Cuadra observed [redacted] smoking what he believed to be marijuana and placed this observation over the radio to Lt. Fernando Guimaraes and PO Miguel Santiago, who responded to the vicinty. [redacted] walked back to [redacted] and was about to enter his house. PO Cuadra placed a description of [redacted] and his location ([redacted]) over the radio. [redacted] then entered [redacted] and Lt. Guimaraes, PO Santiago, and an unidentified male officer in uniform, PO1, approached the house. [redacted] alleged that he went upstairs to put his food in his book bag and he heard someone say aloud "hello." [redacted] exited his room and allegedly saw Lt. Guimaraes, PO Santiago, and PO1 standing on the stairs inside of his house (Allegations B and C). [redacted] exited his house with the officers and he alleged that the officers questioned him (Allegation A). PO Santiago then frisked [redacted] (Allegation D) and allegedly searched his pockets (Allegation E). PO1 or PO Santiago then allegedly searched a pair of gloves that [redacted] was wearing (Allegation F). At this point, the officers had determined that [redacted] had gotten take-out food from a Chinese food restaurant. Lt. Guimaraes entered [redacted] and walked into a bedroom adjacent to the living room and felt a bag with Chinese food in it (Allegation G). The bag was still warm so Lt. Guimaraes exited the apartment. Lt. Guimaraes, PO Santiago, and PO1 left. [redacted] Read report for details.