Case: 2024-29751
Closed: 2/19/2024
Case Details:
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Off-duty employment without permission.
Penalty: B - Command Discipline, vacation days (2 days)
Recommendation: Command Discipline - C
Montague, Ryhem vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 029953/2017E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, November 8, 2017, ended April 19, 2019
$23,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On or about August 16, 2016, Plaintiff was lawfully present on the sidewalk when he was approached by several Defendant NYPD officers. Plaintiff was improperly stopped, questioned, searched, detained, arrested, and confined without legal cause or justification by several Defendant NYPD officers, including P.O.s Mariela Ortega, Daniel Blake, and other unknown officers. The defendant officers then began to illegally search Plaintiff without any evidence, reached into Plaintiff's front pocket, and confiscated a legal pocket knife. Plaintiff was arrested for possession of an illegal knife, despite the knife in question being a legal one.