Jose R. Garcia

Lawsuits

Named in 10 known lawsuits, $539,500 total settlements.

Callaham, James vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 818585/2024E, Supreme Court - Bronx, March 11, 2025

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.

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 # 817506/2023E, Supreme Court - Bronx, November 3, 2023, ended January 31, 2025
$15,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On February 15, 2023, in the vicinity of 919 East 163rd Street, plaintiff was wrongfully stopped, grabbed, searched, handcuffed, assaulted, battered and detained in an agressive and excessive way by defendant officers Sandor Burgos, Peter Delaney, Trevor Singh, Enzo Morello, Lieutenant Jose Garcia and others. As a result plaintiff was rendered sick, injured and disabled and remains so. Plaintiff was falsely arrested and thereafter suffered abuse of process and was maliciously prosecuted plaintiff based on fraud, perjury and misrepresentation. Plaintiff was incarcerated for over 24 hours and had to make various court appearances over an extended period of time until all charges were terminated favourably. Plaint...

Lavan, Niquera, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 801562/2023E, Supreme Court - Bronx, January 27, 2023, ended September 20, 2023
$299,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On September 24, 2022, at approximately 2:00pm, in the vicinity of Tiffany Street and Spofford Avenue, Bronx, NY, Plaintiffs NIQUERA LAVAN and RAYMOND BAEZ were stopped, searched, assaulted and detained by Defendant NYPD officers DUPRES, GARCIA, FELIZ, DOE, and ROE without warrant, probable cause, or any legal justification. Plaintiffs was incarcerated for over 24 hours and required to make numerous court appearances until all charges against her were terminated. The complaint lacks any further details and the second set of allegations (for Plaintiff BAEZ) are a "carbon copy" of the first set of allegations by Plaintiff LAVAN.

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...

Parra, Ramon vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 024143/2015E, Supreme Court - Bronx, August 4, 2015, ended September 14, 2017
$30,000 Settlement
Complaint, Summons/Complaint
Description: On August 23, 2014 at about 11:30 am, when plaintiff was at a street, police officers Jose Garcia (Shield No. 19880), Danny Acosta (Sheild No. 21357), and other police officers, without a warrant, approached plaintiff, stopped, searched, grabbed, assaulted, battered, and detained him in an aggressive and excessive manner. Plaintiff went through a strip search while in custody. Plaintiff was prosecuted and all charges were dropped later. Plaintiff remained incarcerated for over 24 hours and was asked to appear in court during extended period of time

Greathouse, Ralph vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 023957/2015E, Supreme Court - Bronx, July 28, 2015
Complaint, Summons/Complaint
Description: On or about July 31, 2014 Plaintiff was lawfully in front of a location when PO Jose Garcia forcibly, violently, and unlawfully stopped, frisked, violently threw against a wall several times, handcuffed excessively tightly, and falsely imprisoned Plaintiff without legal justification. Plaintiff was imprisoned from approximately July 31, 2014 at 9:45 p.m. through August 1, 2014 at approximately 11:00 a.m. at which time Plaintiff was released and advised he was free to go. It is Plaintiff's understanding any criminal charges have been or will be dismissed. Plaintiff suffered great emotional and mental anguish, physical harm, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and loss of liberty as a result of this incident.

Pacheco, Moses, Jr. vs City of New York, Po Forrester, et al.
Case # 301980/2014, Supreme Court - Bronx, April 11, 2014, ended November 15, 2018
$90,000 Settlement

Pacheco v. City of New York et al
Case # 301979/2014, Supreme Court - Bronx
Summons/Complaint