Named in 4 known lawsuits, $432,000 total settlements.
Cintron, Tyrike Whom The Police Misspelled Cintron, Trike vs City of New York et al.
Case # 160715/2018,
Supreme Court - New York, November 27, 2018, ended March 19, 2020
$125,000 Settlement
Vargas, Robert vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 18CV03658,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, August 27, 2018, ended October 21, 2019
$30,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 28, 2017, plaintiff Robert Vargas left an apartment building when defendant police officers wearing plain clothes seized upon the plaintiff and began violently beating him and dragged him down to the ground where they continued their attack which also included using a police radio to hit the plaintiff. The defendants expressed that plaintiff should have worked with them when he had the chance, which was in reference to his refusal earlier that year to work as an informant for the NYPD Narcotics Bureau.
Despite the plaintiff suffering serious and visible injuries and having trouble breathing, the defendants failed to secure the necessary medical care and instead arrested plaintiff and brought him to the ...
Mcilwain, Tarell vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 16CV03133,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, May 4, 2016, ended January 14, 2020
$260,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Plaintiff and his brother were stopped on the street and arrested by Defendant officers. Plaintiff was taken to a local precinct, strip-searched, and charged with Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, of which he was later acquitted.
Siler, Omar vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV00189,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, January 13, 2015, ended June 29, 2015
$17,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On May 31, 2014, the Plaintiff, Mr. Omar Siler, was sitting outside his friend's apartment building, waiting to be buzzed into the building. A man leaving the building held the door open for Mr. Siler, and as Mr. Siler approached the door, a Defendant undercover NYPD officer in plain clothes, who did not identify himself, chased Mr. Siler into the building, up to the roof, and down the fire escape to the building's backyard. Once Mr. Siler reached the backyard, a group of individual defendant officers standing behind a gate shouted at him to get on the ground, while one pointed his gun at him. Mr. Siler lay on the ground. For a few minutes, the defendants tried to figure out how to get around the gate and into ...