Amadeo Oktrova

Lawsuits

Named in 15 known lawsuits, $299,500 total settlements.

Gorin, Kurt Iii vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 815468/2024E, Supreme Court - Bronx, October 15, 2024
Complaint
Description: On May 14, 2024, Kurt Gorin III ("Plaintiff" or "Claimant") was falsely arrested, imprisoned, assaulted and battered and subjected to excessive force. Claimant had completed a job interview at White Castle on Webster Avenue when the named police officers NYPD Segeant Pinny, and Officer Moneron stopped him to illegally search him without probable cause. Claimant then walked two blocks further and saw these officers again and pulled out his phone to take down their license plate number. Then 3 male officers and one female officer got out of the car. Segeant Pinny assaulted the Plaintiff, forcefully grabbing his hands and putting handcuffs on his left wrist at which the second male officer came up behind him and ...

Jackson, Daven vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 817499/2021, Supreme Court - Bronx, November 29, 2022
Complaint
Description: On or about June 2, 2020, Defendants, including PO Aminur Rahman, Jose Santiago, Amadeo Oktrova, and other officers, sprinted towards Plaintiff on the street although they had no indication, reasonable suspicion or probable cause that the Plaintiff had committed a crime. Plaintiff feared that Defendants would brutally assault and batter Plaintiff if he did not run away, so Plaintiff ran approximately half of a block away. Defendants eventually caught up to Plaintiff and then punched Plaintiff on the right side of his head and continued to repetitively hit Plaintiff with their batons. Defendants then placed Plaintiff under arrest without legal justification or probable cause by grabbing Plaintiff off of the gro...

Vargas, Hector vs City of Ny
Case # 808323/2022E, Supreme Court - Bronx, June 3, 2022, ended December 21, 2022
$85,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On November 2, 2021, around 6:00 PM, Plaintiff Hector Vargas was racially profiled and stopped near West Fordham Road and Andrews Avenue, Bronx, by Defendant Officers Ariel Guzman, Amadeo Oktrova, Edgar Rivera, John Doe, John Roe, and Gina Mestre. Defendant Officers assaulted Plaintiff in the head, neck, back, body, and limbs. Plaintiff was taken to the 52nd precinct and strip searched before his arraignment. Plaintiff was incarcerated for over 24 hours before he was released (unclear if pre-arraignment), and the charges were eventually terminated.

Hernandez, Ramon vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 21CV02397, U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, February 17, 2021, ended June 7, 2022
Zero Disposition
Complaint
Description: On February 5, 2015, at approximately 3:15 AM, Plaintiff Ramon Hernandez was walking near Burnside and Andrews Avenues in the Bronx when Officers McGrisken, Oktrova, S. Lopez, Barnett, Gonzalez, Delio, Collins, To, M. Lopez, and C. Lopez ordered Plaintiff to stop moving as they approached him. Defendant Officers McGrisken, Oktrova, S. Lopez, Barnett, Gonzalez, Delio, Collins, To, M. Lopez, and C. Lopez then placed Plaintiff under arrest, without explanation, by violently grabbing and contorting plaintiff's arms behind his back to apply metal handcuffs with excessive force. Officers McGrisken, Oktrova, S. Lopez, Barnett, Gonzalez, Delio, Collins, To, M. Lopez, and C. Lopez took Plaintiff to the NYPD 46th Preci...

Muhammad, Yadullahi vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 035400/2019E, Supreme Court - Bronx, January 8, 2020
Complaint
Description: On April 8, 2014, at approximately 5:00 a.m., Plaintiff Muhammad was at home sleeping with his family, at 211 Southern Boulevard, 4B, Bronx, NY, when Defendants, including Police Officers Geist, Gaston, Disimone, Farrell, Reyes, Batista, Smith, Green, Talleyrand, Oktrova, Warkenthein and John or Jane Doe 1 through 10 knocked on their door and claimed they had a warrant for an individual named "Mutar Mohammed." Plaintiff's girlfriend answered the door and told the Defendant Officers that nobody with that name lived at that location. Defendant Officers aggressively pushed their way into the apartment with their guns drawn and pointed at Plaintiff without probable cause. Plaintiff was forced to the ground at gun p...

Wilks, Shamel vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 505893/2019, Supreme Court - Kings, May 15, 2019, ended May 28, 2020
$16,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On March 18, 2016, at plaintiff's apartment in Brooklyn, Kings County, the defendants (Detective Jeremy Veit, Sergeant Robert Barnett, Officer Amadeo Oktrova and Officer John Iles) unlawfully entered plaintiff's home without a warrant, probable cause or consent. Even though no exigent circumstances existed, the defendant officers proceeded to search the premises, where they allegedly found a gun in one of the bedrooms. Plaintiff was falsely and improperly arrested and charged for felony possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of marijuana. Following his arrest, he was detained for 72 hours and has been forced to return to court on multiple occasions after being released after posting bail. All charges w...

Rogers, Krishaun vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 22638/2019E, Supreme Court - Bronx, March 21, 2019, ended January 24, 2020
$60,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 19, 2018 at approximately 11:00 P.M., Plaintiff Krishaun Rogers was walking down the street when three NYPD officers P.O. James A Lindquist, P.O. Gina Mestre, and Sergeant Oktrova Amadeo began chasing Rogers down the street. One officer yelled stop before I shoot to which Rogers stopped running. He was then assaulted by all three officers and brought to the precinct where he was detained until June 23, 2018.

Fernandez, Jose Javier, et al. vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 19CV01862, U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, March 6, 2019, ended October 21, 2020
Zero Disposition
Complaint
Description: On July 14th, 2018, around 1:00pm, Plaintiff Jose Javier Fernandez was driving a minivan near 196th Street in the Bronx with the other two plaintiffs, who were passengers in the minivan. Fernandez had not violated any traffic or parking laws, and the minivan complied with minivan regulations. Nonetheless, three NYPD officers in an unmarked vehicle pulled over the minivan by force. These officers then surrounded the minivan and asked for license, registration, and proof of insurance. The NYPD officers then asked for the names of each of the plaintiffs in order to run a "warrant check" against them. They did not find any warrants out for any of the plaintiffs. Despite this, the officer arrested them stating that ...

Lucero, Manuel vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 034614/2018E, Supreme Court - Bronx, January 29, 2019, ended June 29, 2020
$22,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On October 12, 2017, the plaintiff was unlawfully stopped, seized, searched, assaulted and arrested by the defendant PO including POs Garry Tuma, Brian Vanduzer, Amadeo Oktrova without any reasonable suspicion of unlawful behaviour. The defendants falsely accused the plaintiff of crimes and assaulted and battered the plaintiff. The plaintiff's hands were then contorted behind his back and then handcuffed in an excessively tight fashion. The plaintiff was taken to the 52nd Precinct where she was fingerprinted, photographed and searched and was then taken to Bronx Central Booking where she was processed again.

Davis, Nadine vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 522310/2018, Supreme Court - Kings, November 7, 2018, ended May 28, 2020
$16,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On or about March 18th, 2016, Plaintiff was lawfully inside her residence when she heard knocking at her door. She looked out her window and saw multiple plains-clothes NYPD officers at her doorway. She went downstairs and opened the door and PO Amadeo Oktrova, PO John Iles, DET Jeremy Veit, and SGT Robert Bernett entered her home without her consent. Attendant officers provided no warrant for their unlawfully entry, nor were they given permission by Plaintiff to enter. PO's told Plaintiff that they smelled marijuana. PO's began to search the home and Plaintiff told them to leave and attempted to call 911. One of the officers forcibly took her phone and proceeded to affix handcuffs to her wrists. During the sea...

Hernandez, Ramon vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 020756/2018E, Supreme Court - Bronx, February 7, 2018, ended March 12, 2020
Zero Disposition
Complaint
Description: On or about February 5, 2015, in the Bronx, Defendants NYPD Officers unlawfully touched, grabbed, handcuffed and seized Plaintiff Ramon Hernandez in an excessive manner, causing him physical pain and mental suffering. The Plaintiff was thereafter held in custody over the course of twenty (20) months until he was released. The Defendants failed to take reasonable steps to stop the prosecution of the Plaintiff and instead maliciously and deliberately provided false and/or incomplete information to the District Attorney's office to induce prosecution of the Plaintiff.

Copes, Laquan vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 17CV08413, U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, November 21, 2017, ended March 21, 2022
$30,000 Settlement
Amended Complaint, Complaint
Description: On October 27, 2017, Mr. Laquan Copes was riding his bike in the Bronx. At least 15 members of the NYPD grabbed him off his bike and began to question and manhandle him. They assaulted Mr. Copes using their fists, legs, batons, radio, and asp. Several supervisors on the scene failed to intervene, took part in the beating, and denied Mr. Copes medical care. The officers arrested Mr. Copes and charged him with various crimes. During the course of Mr. Copes' custody, the officers delayed medical treatment, though Mr. Copes was eventually transported to a hospital. The officers fabricated paperwork and falsified documents stating that Mr. Copes was in possession of a weapon and had resisted arrest along with commit...

Ferreiro, Bruce & Tuma, John vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 302215/2016, Supreme Court - Bronx, July 8, 2016

Jackson, Dax Camara vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV05951, U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, July 30, 2015, ended May 24, 2016
$20,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Defendant officer exited police vehicle and approach plaintiff and friend. Plaintiff called 911 and requested for more officers to be sent to the scene. Defendant officer charged plaintiff with obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, disorderly conduct: creation of unreasonable noise and disorderly conduct: failure to disperse. All charges were dismissed.

Telpha, Danny vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 300580/2015, Supreme Court - Bronx, February 27, 2015, ended August 6, 2016
$50,000 Settlement