Named in 7 known lawsuits, $241,586 total settlements.
Greene, Germaine vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 525996/2024,
Supreme Court - Kings, October 1, 2024
Complaint
Description: On or about October 18, 2023, on the street, Plaintiff was falsely arrested by several unknown Defendant NYPD officers. The Defendants had no legal cause or justification to arrest Plaintiff. The Defendants then illegally searched Plaintiff. The Plaintiff had multiple assaults and batteries committed to his person by the Defendants, including being placed in handcuffs. The Plaintiff was then transported to the precinct, where he was again illegally searched and questioned. All charges against Plaintiff were eventually dismissed.
Grant, Jamar vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 512353/2023,
Supreme Court - Kings, April 26, 2023
Complaint
Description: On January 22, 2021, Plaintiff was going to check on a friend's dog. Defendant NYPD Officers Adam Elmaadawy and other Officers John or Jane Doe 1-10 were executing a search of an apartment residence in the same building without any legal justification. When Plaintiff arrived, Defendant Officers aggressively grabbed him and dragged him into the apartment residence without warning or any legal justification. Defendants then aggressively searched Plaintiff and, having found nothing, aggressively contorted Plaintiff's arms and handcuffed Plaintiff in an excessively tight fashion, causing further injury. Defendants Elmaadawy and others accused Plaintiff of criminally possessing a weapon and that Plaintiff lived at t...
Pierre, Amanda vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 528147/2022,
Supreme Court - Kings, September 29, 2022, ended August 20, 2024
$30,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On January 22, 2021, Plaintiff was at home with two other individuals when multiple NYPD officers burst into the apartment with guns drawn. Defendants, including ADAM ELMAADAWY, refused to explain why she was being arrested and if they had a warrant. Defendants turned off their body camaras and illegal searched her home claiming they have found weapons whereas at no point did Defendant Officers recover any drugs, weapons, graffiti, instruments, or other illegal contraband from Plaintiff or from the location. Plaintiff was unlawfully arrested and handcuffed by defendant officers without legal justification or probable cause and transported to the 71st Precinct where she was illegally strip-searched, fingerprinte...
Santiago, Robert vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 518849/2022,
Supreme Court - Kings, July 5, 2022, ended April 11, 2025
$20,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On October 22, 2021, at approximately 5:50 p.m., Plaintiff Robert Santiago was present in the vicinity of 227 Sullivan Place in Kings County, when Defendant NYPD Police Officers unlawfully arrested Plaintiff without legal justification. Plaintiff and his vehicle were searched, he was handcuffed and shoved into a marked police vehicle, and Plaintiff's vehicle was confiscated and impounded for a month. Plaintiff was transported to the 71st Precinct and was held for 9 hours without the opportunity to make a phone call. Plaintiff was then transferred to Central Booking, where he remained for approximately 39 hours.
Plaintiff alleges claims of: unlawful stop, question, and search, unlawful seizure and deprivation ...
Huntley, Devon vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 524482/2020,
Supreme Court - Kings, December 9, 2020, ended August 22, 2022
$42,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 4, 2020, Plaintiff was unlawfully stopped, questioned, frisked, searched, and arrested by Defendant officers after he had just exited the subway at the Franklin Avenue Station near 320 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, where a Black Lives Matter protest was taking place. Plaintiff, an essential worker at Staten Island University Hospital, had been returning home from work when the officers, without provocation, grabbed him, threw him to the ground, and brutally assaulted him. The officers punched, kicked, and beat Plaintiff with a baton, causing serious injuries to his face, head, and back.
Despite informing the officers of his essential worker status and showing his hospital ID, Plaintiff's pleas for relie...
Bolivar, Kerline vs Elmaadawy, Adam M., et al.
Case # 503258/2019,
Supreme Court - Kings, February 20, 2019, ended May 24, 2021
$145,000 Settlement
Nationwide Affinity Insurance Company of America A/s/o Bolivar, Kerline vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 039932/2018,
Civil Court - Queens, December 31, 2018, ended March 12, 2019
$4,086 Settlement
