Named in 6 known lawsuits, $147,000 total settlements.
Hayles, Concetta vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 707434/2022,
Supreme Court - Queens, August 18, 2022
Complaint
Description: On April 15, 2021, at 111-38 134th St, Queens, NY, Plaintiff was inside her residence with her family, when Defendants entered the location by breaking the front door to gain entry. Plaintiff, her husband, and Plaintiff’s tenants were handcuffed, and subjected to unlawful searches. Defendants also entered Plaintiff’s tenant’s apartment. Plaintiff was held in handcuffs for thirty minutes, while Plaintiff’s husband was handcuffed for three and a half hours, while Defendants searched the premises and the garage in the back of the Plaintiff’s property. Defendants caused damage to Plaintiff’s personal and physical property. Plaintiff, her husband, and Plaintiff’s tenants were unlawfully detained for five hours. As a...
Woodley, Macliff vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 521822/2019,
Supreme Court - Kings, January 9, 2020
Complaint
Description: On October 5, 2016, Plaintiff was walking home, when individually named NYPD officers (William P. Reddin, Brian J. Hellberg, and Michael Miller) stopped him in an unmarked police car and inquired with Plaintiff as to "what he was doing". Upon Plaintiff explaining that he was walking home, defendant officers proceeded to frisk and search the Plaintiff without consent and recovered a legal pocketknife. The defendant's justified the unlawful stop, frisk and search by falsely alleging that they observed a clip on the pants of plaintiff, which plaintiff did not have, nor was the knife clipped to his pants.
Upon recovering the legal pocketknife, the Plaintiff was falsely arrested, unlawfully handcuffed and trans...
Braxton, Frontis vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 16CV05164,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, October 4, 2016, ended January 26, 2018
$47,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: As Plaintiff was exiting a liquor store, Plainclothes officers stopped him, handcuffed him, put in a police car, and came back 20 minutes later to say they found a gun in a bag they believe belonged to the Plaintiff. Plaintiff was brought to a precinct, shoved and injured by and officer, and charged with Possession of a Weapon. Plaintiff testified before a Grand Jury who returned a No True Bill.
Bryant, Anestazia vs Lieutenant Gebbia, James, et al.
Case # 15CV00812,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, February 17, 2015, ended September 2, 2015
$30,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Defendant officers arrested Plaintiff, forcefully, after her cousin stole her car and hit a parked car. The officers offered to release Plaintiff is she signed a statement in support of the charges against her causing and when she refused she was booked on dis con.
Carter, Roosevelt vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 13CV02012,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, May 7, 2013, ended September 20, 2013
$20,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On October 2, 2012, the Plaintiff was arrested for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. At the police station, he was inhumanely strip-searched multiple times in the presence of female officers. While in the holding cell, bed bugs bit him, and hew as transferred to another holding cell.
Silverio, Amaurys, et Al vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 005281/2012,
Supreme Court - Kings, March 7, 2012, ended June 7, 2017
$50,000 Settlement
