Named in 12 known lawsuits, $162,750 total settlements.
Saint Jour, Christopher vs Tura, Nizom, et al.
Case # 25CV02871,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, February 6, 2026
Sutherland, Chelsee vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 505802/2025,
Supreme Court - Kings, February 19, 2025
Michel, Efdgyne vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 532963/2024,
Supreme Court - Kings, December 10, 2024
Complaint
Description: On September 9, 2023, plaintiff was assaulted and battered and sexually assauted by defendant NYPD Officer Casseus. Four hours latter, plaintiff was apprehended and arrested, with unnecessary and unjustified force applied, upon false, misleading and inaccurate statements made by Officer Casseus regarding her complicity in a robbery. This was witnessed and/or assisted by NPYD Officer MccCaffrey, NYPD Sergeants Dixson, Hanna, Mallilo and NYPD Officers John Doe 1-3, who failed to take any action to intervene. Moreover, when her injuries required medical attention, they denied her access thereto for a substantial period of time. As a result of these actions, she suffered physical pain and injuries and emotional...
Nieuenkirk, Kyle, et Al vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 520298/2021,
Supreme Court - Kings, August 24, 2021
Complaint
Description: On September 7, 2020 Plaintiffs Nieuenkirk, Morris (who was pregnant), and Foxworth were lawfully present in a vehicle in the area of President Street and Franklin Avenue when they were approached by Det. Paul Mallilo and POs Essence A. Jackson, Shante L. Terrell, and John Does, who unlawfully grabbed Plaintiff Nieuenkirk and dragged them out of the vehicle. POs punched Plaintiff Nieuenkirk repeatedly with fists and flashlights, maced him, pinned him against a motor vehicle, struck him with elbows, and forcefully placed him in handcuffs. Plaintiff Morris was punched and pushed to the ground. POs denied Plaintiff Morris's requests for medical attention and confiscated several of her personal items. Plaintiff Fo...
Smith, Christopher vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 522871/2019,
Supreme Court - Kings, December 16, 2019, ended December 28, 2020
$22,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On July 23, 2018, at approximately 3:00 p.m. plaintiff Christopher Smith, while lawfully in the vicinity of 580 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, was subject to an unlawful stop, question, frisk, search, false arrest, and false imprisonment by the defendant New York City police officers. Plaintiff did not commit any crime and Defendant did not have any probable Cause. Defendant officers Under Cover officer. Defendant Matthew Monkowski and John Does 1-10, did not recover any drugs, weapons, or other illegal contraband in plaintiff's possession. Plaintiff was unlawfully imprisoned at the 71st Precinct and subjected to an illegal strip search including police officers stripped plaintiff of all of his clothes, spr...
Young, Kareem vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 19CV04040,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, July 19, 2019, ended November 6, 2020
$9,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On July 19, 2018, at approximately 5:45 am, approximately 20 NYPD officers, without probable cause, entered the home of Plaintiff Young, ransacked it, and arrested him. Individual Defendants supplied false testimony and fabricated evidence of crack cocaine in the Plaintiff's home. Plaintiff charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, but the charges were eventually dismissed.
Eleazer, Shawana vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 502085/2019,
Supreme Court - Kings, April 2, 2019, ended September 26, 2019
$14,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 3,2017, plaintiff lawfully received treatment at a methadone clinic and was prescribed two doses to take at home by the clinic. Plaintiff then entered a friend's car outside the clinic, which was immediately surrounded by officers. Plaintiff advised them that she had the liquid methadone and showed her id card which showed she was a patient of the clinic. The officers made no effort to verify is the plaintiff was legally allowed to have the methadone.
The plaintiff's friend then told the officers they were harassing them. Sergeant Monkowski next told the other officers "we are going to lock them up" and the officers immediately arrested plaintiff and her friend unlawfully. Plaintiff was then taken t...
Alexander, Richard, et al. vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 509781/2018,
Supreme Court - Kings, July 23, 2018, ended December 9, 2019
$32,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 21, 2017, within 9427 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, NY, plaintiffs were unlawfully and wrongfully arrested by non-party Officer Mallilo along with unidentified NYPD officers. The premises was a one-room studio apartment, rented by the plaintiff Richard Alexander's brother, Joseph. Neither plaintiff resided at the subject premises at the time of the incident. At the time of the incident, Joseph was vacationing out of the country, and not in the premises. Mallilo, with unidentified officers, were executing a search warrant, and forcibly entered into the subject remises by breaching the front door with a "rabbit tool". Joseph was the subject of the search warrant. Before Mallilo and other officers searched the ...
Nunziata, Margaret vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 504904/2018,
Supreme Court - Kings, March 13, 2018
Complaint
Description: On January 7, 2017, plaintiff was departed the Kings County Hospital Rehabilitation Clinic with a sealed, prescribed bottle of methadone; a prescription given to plaintiff as part of the plaintiff's participation in a methadone maintenance treatment program. Plaintiff was traveling in a provided car service. Soon thereafter, defendant-NYPD officers, dressed in plainclothes, traveling in an unmarked police car, stopped the plaintiff's car service. Defendants ordered plaintiff to exit the motor vehicle, with guns pointed directly at her face and back. Plaintiff's exit coincided with the arrival of a marked NYPD vehicle, from which additional NYPD officers approached the plaintiff with guns drawn. Defendant-NYPD o...
Rose, Chad vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV05529,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, October 7, 2015, ended May 16, 2016
$9,750 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Plaintiff was on the street talking with friends when officers arrested him for an assault the occurred 7 days earlier. Plaintiff was taken to the 71st Precinct and charged with 221.40, 221.10(1), and 221.05, which were all later dismissed.
Small, Rodric vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 508684/2015,
Supreme Court - Kings, July 21, 2015, ended December 20, 2018
$40,000 Settlement
Complaint,
Summons/Complaint
Description: On or about December 11, 2014, plaintiff was lawfully inside of his parents' residence, where he was currently residing at the time, when defendant NYPD officers John Does, Jane Does and officer Paul Mallilo arrested plaintiff for trespassing and/or suspected burglary. The plaintiff and his parents, who were home at the time, both tried to explain to the officers repeatedly that the plaintiff was inside of his own residence and not trespassing. Despite the lack of probable cause or legal justification, the defendants falsely arrested the plaintiff and viciously punched him in the head and body in the process of doing so, including employing an illegal chokehold on the plaintiff, which caused injuries requiring ...
Dupigny, Helary vs P.O. Mallilo, Paul, et al.
Case # 14CV00866,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, June 18, 2014, ended December 15, 2014
$35,000 Settlement
Amended Complaint