Sergey Pogosyan

Lawsuits

Named in 11 known lawsuits, $519,000 total settlements.

Aybar, Anthony vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 815813/2024E, Supreme Court - Bronx, October 2, 2024, ended March 27, 2026
$30,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 8, 2024 Plaintiff was lawfully in the vicinity of an intersection when PO David Troncoso, PO Jose M. Gomez, PO Sergey Pogosyan, Lt. Jose Garcia, PO Nicholas Kim, PO John Doe, and PO John Roe unlawfully approached based in part on racial prejudice and summarily stopped, grabbed, assaulted, battered, searched, and arrested Plaintiff without legal justification. Plaintiff was taken into custody, incarcerated for over 24 hours, and malicious prosecuted. Plaintiff was compelled to make numerous court appearances over an extended period of time until all charges against him were terminated favorably. Plaintiff sustained physical and emotional pain and injuries as a result of this incident.

Alvarado, Michael vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 815020/2024E, Supreme Court - Bronx, September 23, 2024, ended May 19, 2025
$150,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On July 17, 2024 Plaintiff was in the passenger seat of a legally parked car with the engine off when Sgt. Kevin Weber, PO Joel Feliz, PO Jose Gomez, PO Sergey Pogosyan, and PO Anthony Rivera approached and falsely accused Plaintiff of crimes before violently grabbing Plaintiff's head and body, motivated in part by racial prejudice. POs were informed multiple times by Plaintiff and bystanders that Plaintiff is a paraplegic who cannot get out of a car on his own. At no time did Plaintiff refuse to exit the vehicle, only mentioning that he required assistance. Regardless, POs grabbed Plaintiff violently by his disabled leg and neck and ripped him from the car. Plaintiff was then illegally searched, including in...

Vanterpool, Travis vs City of Ny, Et. al.
Case # 804304/2024E, Supreme Court - Bronx, March 19, 2024
Complaint
Description: On or about December 10, 2022, at approximately 9:42pm, plaintiff was falsely arrested. Defendants Pogosyan, Sanchez and Pascucci, were the arresting officers and signed the criminal court complaint knowingly and falsely accusing the plaintiff of other untrue charges. Defendants did not have an arrest warrant or probable cause and falsely arrested, unlawfully imprisoned and illegally searched and seized the plaintiff. Multiple assaults and batteries were committed to the plaintiff's person by the defendants. Plaintiff was handcuffed and transported to a NYPD precinct where he was strip searched twice with a visual cavity inspection, among other things. Defendants, including Jane Does 1-10 provided false informa...

Santana-Feliz, Esmeralda vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 817058/2023E, Supreme Court - Bronx, October 27, 2023
Complaint
Description: On April 6, 2023, police officers Sergey Pogosyen (Sheild No. 24198), Sandor Burgos (Tax No. 968298), and other police officers, without a warrant, stopped, searched, grabbed, assaulted, battered, and detained him in an aggressive and excessive manner.

Serrano, Jose vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 801436/2023E, Supreme Court - Bronx, January 26, 2023, ended November 16, 2023
$40,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On August 4, 2022, defendant police officers Sergey Pogosyan, John Doe, and John Roe approached the plaintiff and stopped, searched, physically assaulted, and arrested him without any legal justification. As a result, the plaintiff suffered injuries and was subjected to malicious prosecution.

Reeves, Tyriq vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 817068/2022E, Supreme Court - Bronx, November 15, 2022, ended December 19, 2023
$75,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On May 26, 2022, PO POGOSYAN, FELIZ, GARCIA, KENNEDY, DOE, and ROE were on duty and the vicinity of Hoe Avenue and East 167th Street, Bronx, and approached the Plaintiff without probable cause even though the Plaintiff was doing nothing illegal, improper, or acting suspicious in any way. PO POGOSYAN, FELIZ, GARCIA, KENNEDY, DOE, and ROE strip search without any legal reason or justification and then touched, grabbed, handcuffed, seized, and arrested the Plaintiff in an excessive manner and with excessive force. The Plaintiff was arranged after his arrest and then falsely and maliciously prosecuted. The Plaintiff remained incarcerated for 24 hours and was required to make numerous court appearances over an exten...

Santana-Feliz, Esmeralda, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 816053/2022E, Supreme Court - Bronx, October 28, 2022, ended April 10, 2023
$210,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On 7/31/22, at approximately, 10:00 p.m., Plaintiff ESMERALDA SANTANAFELIZ was in the vicinity of Kelly Street and East 163rd Street in the Bronx when she was approached by several police officers including but not limited to Defendants POGOSYAN,DUPRES, DOE and ROE. Defendant officers detained and arrested Plaintiff in an excessive manner and with excessive force and subjected her to a strip search while in custody. Plaintiff was then arraigned and falsely and maliciously prosecuted with a committing a crime and remained incarcerated for over 24 hours. Plaintiff was also required to attend numerous court appearances over an extended period of time until all charges against her were terminated in her favor.

Rivera Rodriguez, Edras vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 810218/2022E, Supreme Court - Bronx, July 14, 2022, ended March 5, 2024
Zero Disposition
Complaint
Description: On or about June 21, 2021, at approximately 2:00 a.m., Edras Rivera Rodriguez was in police custody at the 41st Precinct in the Bronx when NYPD officers, including Anthony Rappoccio and Sergey Pogosyan, allegedly used excessive force. Despite Rodriguez informing the officers of prior surgeries on his legs and feet, the officers proceeded to tighten his handcuffs and stomp on his surgically repaired foot, causing significant damage. As a result, Rodriguez required additional surgeries and continues to suffer from physical, psychological, and economic harm​.

Bailey, Robert, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 806022/2022E, Supreme Court - Bronx, May 11, 2022, ended April 24, 2024
$14,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 3, 2020, Plaintiffs were legally in their vehicle parked outside their residence when they were illegally stopped, seized and searched, battered and assaulted, detained, and arrested, by defendants, including SERGEY POGOSYAN and other unknown police officers. The defendants did not have probable cause or any legal justification to demand the Defendants to exit their vehicle and to forcibly seize them in order to pull them out. Although Plaintiffs provided an identification, the name of the employer and why they were here, Defendants accused them of criminal activities without any investigation. Defendants violently arrested, assaulted and slammed them. Plaintiffs were wrongfully detained over the cour...

Bolton, Shady vs City of Ny
Case # 153302/2022, Supreme Court - New York, April 20, 2022
Complaint
Description: On January 16, 2021, while lawfully driving near 121st Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan in his newly-purchased 2004 Nissan, the plaintiff was illegally stopped, searched, battered, assaulted, and arrested by defendant officers Onabanjo and Weisenburger without legal justification. The officers falsely claimed there was no license plate on the back of the car, despite the plaintiff having affixed a temporary plate to the back window. The plaintiff offered to call the seller to address the officers' concerns, but they refused and demanded he step out of the car before immediately arresting him. The plaintiff was not informed of the basis for his arrest until much later, when the officers stated they believed t...

Fair, Benjamin vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 0800402/2021, Supreme Court - Bronx, January 13, 2021
Complaint
Description: On May 24, 2019, at approximately 10:00 p.m., in the vicinity 839 Hunts Point Avenue, within the County of Bronx, City and State of New York, Mr. Fair was illegally targeted, because of his race, religion, national origin, ethnicity or other improper characteristics for adverse police action, by Defendants, including NYPD Police Officers Sergey Pogosyan and John or Jane Doe #s 1-10. Mr. Fair was lawfully present at the aforesaid location when Defendants, including illegally approached and questioned him, unlawfully questioned him regarding illegal activity, despite possessing no valid reason to inquire, as no criminal activity was reasonably suspected. The Defendants, including Pogosyan falsely accused Mr. Fair...