Named in 6 known lawsuits, $24,000 total settlements.
Cooke, Donald vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 21CV01371,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, February 23, 2021, ended December 14, 2021
Zero Disposition
Complaint
Description: On July 26, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., inside 1035 Longwood Avenue, The Bronx, Mr. Donald Cooke was approached by Officers Sganga, McGrisken, Korabel, and Reardon. The officers physically restrained Mr. Cooke, grabbing his body and shoulders while violently handcuffing him behind his back. The handcuffs were excessively tight. The officers arrested and processed Mr. Cooke, including various searches and seizures of his person and property, such as fingerprinting, despite a lack of probable cause or reasonable suspicion. The Bronx County District Attorney's Office correctly concluded there was no probable cause or reasonable suspicion to support Mr. Cooke's search, seizure, arrest, detention, or any related criminal p...
Rogers, Simone vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 300318/2017,
Supreme Court - Bronx, February 28, 2017
Santos, Jose vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 152250/2016,
Supreme Court - New York, March 17, 2016, ended November 30, 2017
$10,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On August 15, 2014, Plaintiff was unlawfully detained, searched, arrested, and falsely imprisoned and maliciously prosecuted by Defendants. Plaintiff was doing his laundry across the street from his residence when Plaintiff's friend met him at the rear of Plaintiff's building. Defendant POs approached Plaintiff and his friend and one PO recovered something from a car that was ten to fifteen feet away from Plaintiff. Plaintiff and his friend responded that it was not theirs and after POs searched Plaintiff and his friend, nothing was recovered.
Defendant POs then arrested Plaintiff and his friend despite the negative searches. Plaintiff's friend was released while Plaintiff was processed, arraigned, and held f...
Nunez, Claudio vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 709362/2014,
Supreme Court - Queens, December 15, 2014
Settlement
Complaint
Description: On January 11, 2011, Defendant Police Officers Vincent Esposito, Robert Hawkins, Edwin Estrada, Robert Anderson, and Michael Korabel racially profiled, falsely arrested, and maliciously prosecuted Plaintiff.
Rosa, Richard vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 300521/2014,
Supreme Court - Bronx, February 7, 2014
Jenkins, George, et al. vs Det. Sanabria, Joeselyn, et al.
Case # 13CV03485,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, May 30, 2013, ended September 17, 2014
$14,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On January 10, 2012 at 6am, defendants Joselyn Sanabria, Cunningham, Vernon Truitt, Brian Zuccaro, John Bulone, Darrell Julien, Michael Korabel, Dawn Adames, Clifton Clarke and John Does 1-10 violently entered the home of plaintiff and assaulted and arrested her without any probable cause or reasonable suspicion. Detective Joselyn Sanabria falsely requested a search warrant for plaintiff's home knowing that officers had previously determined that no illegal activity transpired in that apartment. During the raid, the plaintiff was injured when the defendants forced their way into the apartment, she was threatened with a firearm and immobilized for over an hour while her appartment was searched. During the search...