Named in 12 known lawsuits, $281,095 total settlements.
Guzman, Winston vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 25CV08908,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, November 28, 2025
Knight, Tahje, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 802343/2022E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, February 15, 2022
Complaint
Description: On November 14, 2020, Plaintiffs gathered for a memorial vigil in front of the St. Mary's Houses in the Bronx to commemorate the birthday of a loved one who passed away. Without warning or cause, a marked police car pulled up and three of the Defendants jumped from the vehicle. Completely unprovoked, the officers ran over and punched Plaintiff Shakespeare, who was a minor at the time, directly in the face, and proceeded to viciously assault him. Then multiple additional officers arrived, and the Individual Defendants began assaulting Plaintiffs without cause or justification. Plaintiffs were then detained and arrested by the Individual Defendants without probable cause and transported to PSA 7. The Individual D...
Lopez, Lucia as Administratrix of of The Estate of Villegas, Luis vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 030259/2020E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, September 14, 2020, ended December 5, 2022
$200,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On or about January 28, 2020, at approximately 6.30 p.,., Plaintiff Luis Villegas was in the vicinity of East 146th Street and Brook Avenue in the Bronx, New York, when he was approached by several NYPD officers, including Police Officers Jose Corniel, Surendra Seewah, Jose Cordero, and two unidentified officers referred to as John Doe and John Roe. The officers, acting without an arrest warrant, probable cause, or any legal justification, stopped, searched, grabbed, assaulted, battered, and detained Villegas in an aggressive and excessive manner. During the encounter, Villegas was subjected to a strip search while in custody, which was conducted without legal reason or justification. Following his arrest, Vill...
Jimenez, Anthony vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 023628/2020E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, June 1, 2020, ended May 7, 2021
Zero Disposition
Complaint
Description: On March 11, 2018, Plaintiff ANTHONY JIMENEZ was illegally stopped, searched, detained and subjected to excessive force by defendants POLICE OFFICER JOSE CORDERO, POLICE OFFICER NICOLAS RIOS, POLICE OFFICER RONALD FREEMAN, POLICE OFFICER JOHN PENA, and POLICE OFFICER JOHN GOMEZ. Plaintiff was arrested by defendants without cause or justification. Plaintiff remained incarcerated for over 24 hours and was required to make numerous court appearances over an extended period of time until all charges were dropped in Plaintiff's favor. Plaintiff sustained physical and emotional pain and injuries as a result of this incident.
Greathouse, Tyquan vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 024857/2019E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, April 29, 2019, ended February 26, 2020
$5,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On July 8, 2017, Plaintiff was lawfully within the vicinity of 745 E. 152nd St, Bronx, NY. Several NYC Police Officers, including defendants Caban, Cordero and Doe approached Plaintiff. Plaintiff was forced to the ground at gunpoint by defendant officers. The officers slammed Plaintiff into the ground. Plaintiff was handcuffed, punched in the back of the head several times and subjected to unlawful use of force by defendants. The officers unlawfully searched Plaintiff. Defendants recovered no contraband from Plaintiff. Defendants placed Plaintiff into handcuffs and under arrest, and transported him to the precinct. Defendant officers falsely informed the Bronx DA they observed Plaintiff commit various crimes to...
Jimenez, Anthony vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 022611/2019E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, March 18, 2019
Complaint
Description: On or about March 11, 2018, at approximately 1:10 a.m. at the sidewalk located opposite 1357 Boston Road, Bronx, New York, the plaintiff, although lawfully and properly on the sidewalk, was forcibly, violently and unlawfully, stopped, grabbed and violently thrown onto the ground and then handcuffed in a demeaning manner and assaulted and battered in front of the public, threatened and illegally placed under arrest and imprisoned by defendant POs Jose Cordero (Badge No: 14899), Nicolas Rios (Badge No: 6583), "John" Pena and "John" Gomez. During this incident, the officers struck the plaintiff with night sticks and/or large flashlights. Defendant POs also searched plaintiff, and such search did not reveal any i...
Mungin, Giovanni Garry vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 022648/2019E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, March 7, 2019, ended November 10, 2020
$23,595 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On or about April 27, 2018, Plaintiff was wrongfully arrested and charged with theft of services, incarcerated, and held in jail overnight. Defendant PO Cordero did not have probable cause to arrest Plaintiff and used excessive force against Plaintiff. Immediately prior to this incident, Plaintiff was picked up by a cab driver who was to take Plaintiff to Plaintiff's home. Fifteen minutes into the ride, Plaintiff remarked that the taxi had a bad odor, at which time the cab driver demanded that Plaintiff pay the fare despite being twenty minutes away from Plaintiff's destination. Plaintiff did not pay the fare at that time and said that he would pay the fare once they reached Plaintiff's destination. The cab dri...
Castro, Brian vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 034384/2018E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, December 21, 2018, ended June 22, 2023
$35,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On July 29, 2017, plaintiff was unlawfully arrested, detained and imprisoned by defendant NYPD defendant officers Jose Cordero, Monolin Molina and Sergeant Jose Caban. Plaintiff was at a lobby entrance to a building in the Bronx when he saw Molina battering a third party, whereupon plaintiff began to video tape Molina and another unnamed officer. Molina attacked another bystander, punching him in the face, who was then arrested by Cordero. Plaintiff was arrested by defendant NYPD officers as a result of his videotaping of the incident. Defendant officers then falsified evidence to arrest, detain and prosecute plaintiff.
Jeffrey, Ronnie vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 18CV05197,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, June 13, 2018, ended April 29, 2019
$10,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Plaintiff was arrested after stopping to observe police activity on the street. Plaintiff was taken to PSA-7 and charged with disorderly conduct. Plaintiff's case was dismissed.
Muhammad, Yadullahi vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 025393/2018E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, May 10, 2018
Complaint
Description: On March 10, 2017, at around 12AM Plaintiff was walking on the sidewalk. At the time, defendant officer’s were in an unmarked police vehcile with license plate HMM 5438. The defendant officer’s came out of the car and approached plaintiff. Defendant officer didn’t say anything to plaintiff before they spun plaintiff around. When plaintiff asked the defendant officers what they were doing, one of the officers told him to “shut up” and that he was being searched and that if he kept talking or moving he would “go to jail”. When plaintiff continued to protest, he was told he would be “going to jail” if he didn’t shut up.
One of the defendant officer’s pushed plaintiff’s pants down below his waist and placed is ha...
Wright, Donay vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 020407/2018E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, April 12, 2018
Complaint
Description: On October 14, 2016, plaintiff was lawfully present in the street, when she was violently arrested by defendant POs Cordero, Gomez, Gibson and Does 1-10, including by twisting her arms, slamming plaintiff to the ground and by pushing their knees into plaintiff's back in an excessively forceful manner, even though plaintiff explained that she had trouble breathing and the pressure on her back was exacerbating her asthma symptoms.
Nieves, Anibal vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 029290/2017E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, October 5, 2017, ended February 26, 2020
$7,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On or about July 12, 2016, several unknown Defendant officers physically seized, struck, and restrained Plaintiff without any warrant or legal justification. Plaintiff was arrested and taken into police custody and charged with several crimes. Plaintiff's case was dismissed 10 hours later.
