Named in 9 known lawsuits, $77,500 total settlements.
Dean, Andrew vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 527004/2024,
Supreme Court - Kings, October 8, 2024
Complaint
Description: On or about May 12, 2024, Plaintiff was legally operating his vehicle on the streets of Kings County to go home. When Plaintiff pulled up in front of his home, defendants, NYPD officers approached his car with their guns drawn. Plaintiff scared honked his car to alert his family. Plaintiff's father exited the house and then Plaintiff opened the car door and when he did the NYPD officers John and Jane Does, Dustin Diaz and Mark Whirl dragged him out of his car and physically assaulted him, causing injuries to his body and face and then arrested him. Plaintiff was also tasered and struck. Defendants hit plaintiff's head, pounded his head and body into the street. Plaintiff was also wrongfully arrested. The crimin...
Williams, Qwali vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 533153/2023,
Supreme Court - Kings, November 13, 2023
Complaint
Description: On January 28, 2020, Plaintiff Qwali Williams was in obeyance of all local, state and federal rules, regulations, statutes and laws, when he was caused to be unlawfully stopped, detained, battered and assaulted, seized and searched, and falsely arrested by Defendants, including JAMES ARGILA (“ARGILA”), under Shield No. 3497 and Tax No. 946752. Defendant MATTHEW MCCARTHY (“MCCARTHY”) under Shield No. 6427 and Tax No. 942155, Defendant ADNAN RADONCIC (“RADONCIC”) under Shield No. 01316 and Tax No. 930993, Defendant JEANETTE RODRIGUEZ (“RODRIGUEZ”) under Shield No. 03555 and Tax No. 961193, Defendants, JOHN or JANE DOE 1-10, in the vicinity of Linden Boulevard near its intersection with Crescent Street, County of...
Arroyo, Jeremiah vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 512794/2023,
Supreme Court - Kings, August 3, 2023
Complaint
Description: On April 28 2020, the Plaintiff was approached by NYPD Officers John Plumitallo, Sergeant Adrian Radoncic, Detective James Argila, Detective Philip Bilmes, and John Does. The Officers unlawfully stopped, questioned, frisk, searched, assaulted, and falsely arrested the Plaintiff all while using excessive force. Once the Plaintiff asked to be left alone, one officer (not clarified) punched him in the fafe, pulled him to the ground and then the remaining officers piled on top of him while kicking him over his entire body and legs causing a torn ligament to the left knee. He was then taken to the 75th Precinct where he was unlawfully detained following which the Officers initiated a malicious prosecution against th...
Mccray, Elijah vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 506056/2021,
Supreme Court - Kings, April 19, 2021, ended May 5, 2023
$32,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On November 13, 2019, Plaintiff was stopped and searched on a public street without any probable cause. Plaintiff was placed in handcuffs and detained by Defendant PO Argila and a few unnamed POs. Plaintiff was incarcerated under false allegations for approximately seven days in filthy conditions, resulting in him missing a week of work and lost wages. The prosecutor's case against Plaintiff was subsequently terminated, dismissed, and sealed on December 18, 2019.
Blakely, Tayquan vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 500032/2021,
Supreme Court - Kings, January 4, 2021
Complaint
Description: On September 10, 2019, while lawfully at the intersection of Lotts Avenue and Hegeman Avenue in Kings, NY, the plaintiff was unlawfully approached, questioned, searched, assaulted, battered, arrested, and excessively detained by defendants, including John Does 1-10, without legal justification and solely because of his race and national origin. The defendants falsely accused the plaintiff of committing criminal acts related to gun possession and conducted an illegal search by rifling through his pockets and patting him down. The plaintiff was forcibly grabbed, his arms violently contorted behind his back, and affixed with extremely tight handcuffs. Defendants who were present but not physically involved failed ...
Underwood, Kirby vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 18CV01988,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, April 5, 2018, ended October 1, 2018
$10,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Plaintiff was chased, assaulted, and handcuffed by Defendant Officers, who later falsely claimed that they had recovered a firearm from him. Plaintiff was taken to the local precinct, interrogated, and charged with Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, which was later dismissed.
Torres, Gloria as Administrator of The Estate of Torres, Kadeem Jabarie vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 501375/2018,
Supreme Court - Kings, January 25, 2018
Complaint
Description: On February 16, 2017, Plaintiff, a minor, was approached by defendant police officers John Does 1, 2, and 3, who were in plain clothes, with their guns drawn, and did not identify themselves. Plaintiff ran away, and was shot in the back multiple times. He died from those injuries. In the year following his death and preceding this complaint, Plaintiff's family has received very little information documenting his death, in part because defendant police officers gave false and misleading accounts to their superiors.
Parker v. City of New York et al
Case # 11CV03127,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY
$15,000 Settlement
First Amended Complaint
Dallison v. The City of New York et al
Case # 11CV00666,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY
$20,000 Settlement
Amended Complaint,
Stipulation
