Named in 22 known lawsuits, $977,500 total settlements.
Rosario, Wander vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 808082/2026E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, April 29, 2026
Paulino, Alexandra et Al vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 807379/2025E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, July 29, 2025
Marrow, Michael vs The City of Ny, et al.
Case # 24CV00114,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, January 16, 2024, ended September 6, 2024
$37,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On January 6, 2023, Plaintiff was seized, assaulted, and arrested without a warrant on a false criminal charge of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance by defendants Police Officer Kyle F. Flood, Police Officer Nelson Nin, and John Doe #1 - 6. Plaintiff was placed in handcuffs which caused him pain, physical and emotional distress, hardship, and anxiety. Plaintiff was transported to the 48th precinct where he was strip searched before being transferred to Central Booking where he was imprisoned until the following afternoon. The defendants did not have a warrant or other legal process authorizing the arrest of Plaintiff.
Soto, Shawn vs Cityof Ny, et al.
Case # 800697/2023E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, January 19, 2023, ended March 15, 2024
$24,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On March 24, 2022, as the plaintiff exited a store, defendant police officers grabbed and searched him without reasonable cause. Despite finding no contraband or illegal items on the plaintiff, the defendant officers detained him in a van for two hours and subsequently made an unlawful arrest. Upon arrival at the precinct, when the plaintiff requested medical assistance, the defendant officers disregarded his request. Additionally, defendant Detective Ezequiel Martinez provided the District Attorney's office with false, misleading, and incomplete information, alleging that the plaintiff had committed a crime on January 13, 2022, with the malicious intent to initiate prosecution against the plaintiff. The crimin...
Reyes, Luis vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 815052/2022E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, October 20, 2022, ended August 6, 2025
$75,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On February 9, 2019, Plaintiff was walking when defendant officers unlawfully stopped and searched him. Plaintiff had not engaged in any criminal or suspicious acts at the time he was stopped and had not been identified by any witnesses as having engaged in criminal acts. Defendant officers alleged Plaintiff had sold heroin to an undercover officer, which he had not, and there was no pre-recorded buy money on his person when he was searched. Plaintiff was arrested despite the lack of evidence and subjected to a non-consensual search before being transported to the precinct and then to central booking. While in custody, Defendant Officer Nelson Nin falsely told the District Attorney's Office that Plaintiff sold ...
Jordan, Jermaine vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 805754/2022E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, April 13, 2022, ended October 6, 2022
$37,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 25, 2021, plaintiff was at an address in the Bronx, conversing with an acquaintance. Two other individuals approached them and attempted to converse with them, which plaintiff ignored. Plaintiff's acquaintance and one of the individuals went into an abutting store, and thereafter the acquaintance was arrested. Shortly thereafter, police officers approached plaintiff and aggressively questioned him. Plaintiff, having done nothing wrong and not being in possession of any illicit items, protested his innocence, which was ignored. The defendants then arrested plaintiff without any probable cause, searched him, and despite not finding any illicit items, continued to detain him and took his property. They too...
Mccallum, Douglas vs Police Dept, Nyc
Case # 22CV00081,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, April 7, 2022, ended August 19, 2024
$41,000 Settlement
Complaint
Pabon, Johnnie vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 801380/2022E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, January 28, 2022
Complaint
Description: On September 11, 2020, at around 9PM, Plaintiff was on his way to a store to purchase ice cream when he was stopped, thrown to the ground, and assaulted by Defendant Officer Martinez, Defendant Officer Nin, and other Defendant officers. The Defendants struck Plaintiff, punching him and kicking him in the face, head, body, back, arms, and legs. Plaintiff experienced substantial pain in his face, head, body, back, arms, and legs. The Defendants knew that Plaintiff had not engaged in any criminal conduct and allowed Plaintiff to be arrested anyway.
He was strip-searched at the Bronx police precinct, and nothing unlawful or illegal was recovered. Plaintiff received treatment at a local Bronx hospital for pain he ...
Rodriguez, Shellyne, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 21CV10815,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, November 18, 2021, ended September 18, 2024
$490,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 4, 2020, plaintiff participated in the "FTP4" protest in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx. This protest started before an 8 PM curfew that had been implemented by the NYC Mayor. At or around 7:45, before the curfew became effective, the NYPD "kettled" the protesters by forming blockades around them on all sides and thereby preventing them from leaving. At this time, Defendants Sehl, Nin, and two other officers approached and attacked plaintiff, shoving her face into a barrier, grabbing her by the hair, and punching her in the stomach. They then applied zip tie handcuffs to her wrist, tightened them so tightly as to cut off circulation, and arrested her. Plaintiff was then put into a van, wherein...
Diop, Papa Ousenyou vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 027933/2020E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, December 29, 2020
Complaint
Description: On April 25, 2019, plaintiff lawfully walking in the vicinity of East 156st Street and Hewitt Avenue, when defendant police officers, without no probable cause or reason other than plaintiff's race, approached plaintiff and punched him in the jaw, slammed him to the ground, and kicked him in the stomach. Plaintiff was not committing any illegal or criminal act. Plaintiff was then hospitalized, and defendants falsely claimed that plaintiff possessed firearms and was resisting arrest. Plaintiff was thereafter arrested with tight handcuffs, causing substantial pain, and transported to a police precinct where he was processed, searched, and detained. While detained, plaintiff was not protected against his inmates, ...
Roberson, Tyrone vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 020760/2020E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, January 31, 2020, ended August 19, 2022
$30,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On October 3, 2018 at approximately 3PM, Plaintiff was in the vicinity of 575 Southern Boulevard, New York when Defendants, New York City Police Officers Clases, Undercover Officer, Nin, Sehl and John or Jane Doe 1-10, illegally stopped, searched, and seized the Plaintiff. Plaintiff had not committed any crime or violation of the law. Plaintiff had multiple assaults and batteries committed to his person by Defendants Clases, Undercover Officer, Nin, Sehl and John or Jane Doe 1-10 and was violently placed in handcuffs too tightly. Plaintiff was then placed in a NYPD vehicle and transported to the local precinct. Plaintiff was illegally searched, including a strip-search with cavity inspection, questioned, photog...
Cruz, Pedro vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 033435/2019E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, January 30, 2020
Complaint
Description: On August 15, 2018, plaintiff was lawfully in his residence in Bronx when defendant police officers, without provocation or any legal justification, unlawfully entered the home and assaulted plaintiff in his head with a Ballistic Shield, causing a laceration and severe bleeding. The officers then handcuffed and arrested plaintiff, as well as searching the entire apartment and causing severe property damage. At no time did plaintiff commit a crime or possess any contraband in his apartment, and no charges were subsequently made against him. Plaintiff was then transported to the hospital to treat his head wound, which left a permanent scar. As a result of the incident, plaintiff sustained serious physical injury ...
Saavedra, Yajaira vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 19CV07491,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, August 16, 2019, ended November 5, 2021
$87,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On January 11, 2019, NYPD officers, including Detective Edgar Clases, Detective Donald Sehl, Sergeant Alberto Gonzalez, Detective Coty Green, Detective Nelson Nin, Detective Fred Dorch, and Sergeant Paul O’connor, were unlawfully conducting a narcotics surveillance operation in plaintiff's restaurant. Plaintiff protested the officers' presence and, in retaliation, the officers handcuffed her. Plaintiff was then arrested under the direction of Captain Steven Dixson and transported her to the 40th Precinct. After plaintiff was released from the precinct, officers retaliated against her by stationing an NYPD vehicle outside of her restaurant.
Cancel, Minerva vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 026487/2019E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, June 20, 2019, ended December 3, 2021
$40,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 16, 2017, Plaintiff was lawfully standing in the hallway of 815 East 152nd Street, Bronx, New York, in the vicinity of the front door of apartment 6A. While Plaintiff, who was holding her mobile phone in her hand, was in the hallway standing in front of the door of apartment 6A, an individual inside of the apartment opened the door. Suddenly, without any provocation or legal justification, Defendants Hernandez, Green, Estevez, Nin, Kipervaser, Felipe,
and, Melhado rushed behind Plaintiff, grabbing and pushing her against a wall inside of the apartment. Inside, Plaintiff, who had begun videotaping the scene with her mobile phone, had the phone confiscated from her hand by a Defendant Officer. Defendant...
Sierra, Luis vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 032230/2018E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, November 1, 2018, ended May 4, 2020
$2,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On September 13, 2017, at approximately 6:05 a.m., police officers, including Officer Nelson Nin, entered an apartment at 647 Cauldwell Avenue, Bronx, claiming they had a search warrant. Plaintiff was visiting his girlffriend, and asleep in the bedroom and was subsequently brought to the living room with his girlfriend while officers searched the apartment. Despite Plaintiff’s statements that he did not reside at the apartment and had identification showing a different address, Officer Nin and other officers proceeded to arrest him after allegedly finding marijuana in the apartment.
Plaintiff was then taken to the 40th Precinct and held in a cell for about 5 hours before being transferred to central booking, w...
Wilson, Reginald vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 028337/2018E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, July 24, 2018, ended August 20, 2019
$20,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On or about June 14, 2017, at 6:00 a.m., plaintiff was lawfully present within his apartment. The apartment was situated as a series of Single Occupant Residences (SROs) with each bedroom individually locked. Plaintiff was a resident and occupant of Bedroom #5, and had neither general access nor keys to any of the other bedrooms within the apartment. At that time, defendant-NYPD officers, including detectives Steven Colon (Shield No. 6832) and Nelson Nin (Shield No. 15130), entered and seized plaintiff without effectuating a properly acquired warrant or maintaining probable cause. Defendants seized plaintiff with excessive force, arrested plaintiff without probable cause, and placed plaintiff into custody for e...
Wright, Ellion vs P.O. Nin, Nelson, et al.
Case # 021384/2017E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, October 17, 2017
Complaint
Description: On February 14, 2014, at approximately 8:30 PM, Plaintiff Ellion Wright was at 781 East 135th Street, Bronx, New York, when NYPD officers, including Nelson Nin, Angel Delgado, Anaritza Gonzalez, Jose Santiago, Officer Ortiz, and others, unlawfully stopped, questioned, and frisked him without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Officers accused him of a robbery without evidence, handcuffed him, and searched him, finding no contraband. Wright was transported to the 40th Precinct, unlawfully strip-searched, and detained until arraignment the next day, where he was charged with crimes the officers had no basis to allege. Unable to post bail, Wright was held at Riker’s Island until February 25, 2014, when all ch...
Smalls, Sandra vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 024210/2017E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, May 19, 2017, ended July 29, 2019
$12,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On August 2014, the plaintiff was arrested by Police Officer Nelson Nin and charged with Attempted Hindering of Prosecution. All charges were dismissed on or about August of 2015.
Rivera, Carlos vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 303927/2016,
Supreme Court - Bronx, December 28, 2016, ended October 19, 2018
$20,000 Settlement
Carrero, Miguel vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 16CV08566,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, November 22, 2016, ended June 15, 2017
$5,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: The plaintiff was living in a 3/4 home that did not allow residents, so when he went inside to get something his fiancÈ sat outside on the stoop. When they walked away from the residence the defendant officers stopped them and searched both the plaintiff and his fiancÈ. The officers found nothing on the plaintiff, but found a bag of heroin on his fiancÈ. They both were transported to a nearby precinct and despite the lack of evidence, the plaintiff was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and after several court appearances it finally was dismissed.
Alaimo, Kristen vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 303031/2016,
Supreme Court - Bronx, October 20, 2016, ended July 25, 2017
$25,000 Settlement
Carroll, Warnell vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 023222/2016E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, May 16, 2016, ended February 19, 2018
$30,000 Settlement