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Detective Abdiel Anderson has been named in numerous civil rights lawsuits over the past decade, including 25 suits since 2013 resulting in more than $500,000 in settlements. He was promoted to detective in 2008 and has accumulated at least 43 misconduct lawsuits in his career, often involving allegations of unlawful searches and false arrests. Despite […]
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Detective Wilfredo Benitez has been named in 19 civil lawsuits since 2013, with those cases leading to approximately $482,500 in payouts by the city. These suits have included allegations of improper searches and false arrests. Benitez continues to serve as an New YorkPD detective and there is no public record of significant internal discipline despite […]
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Chicopee police sergeant Jeffrey Godere was fired in 2018 after an internal investigation found he had forwarded an unauthorized photo of a homicide victim’s body to other officers and then lied about it. Godere was one of several officers implicated in the sharing of graphic crime scene photos from a 2011 murder, and he was […]
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Holyoke police officer Devon Bones was suspended and later had his certification automatically suspended by the state POST Commission in 2023 after he was arrested and charged with a felony. Bones is accused in an ongoing criminal case originating in Springfield (unrelated to his police duties in Holyoke) involving allegations of violent offenses. As a […]
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Springfield police officer Daniel Cintron was fired in 2018 after being charged with multiple counts of child rape and sexual abuse. In a 2019 trial he was acquitted of the most serious rape charges, but in 2021 he was convicted of two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and two […]
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Springfield police officer Conrad Lariviere was fired in 2017 for conduct unbecoming after he posted a comment on social media mocking victims of a deadly car attack at a Charlottesville rally. Lariviere wrote “Hahaha love this” about the incident, which killed a protester, leading to widespread condemnation. The department terminated him following a hearing, though […]
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Springfield police officer Daniel Billingsley was one of several off-duty officers indicted in 2019 for a violent assault on four civilians outside Nathan Bill’s Bar in 2015. Prosecutors alleged Billingsley and others beat and kicked the victims in a racially motivated attack, then helped cover it up. In 2022, a jury convicted Billingsley of multiple […]
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Springfield police detective Steven Vigneault was implicated alongside Bigda in the 2016 interrogation of juvenile suspects, originally accused of kicking one teen in the face during the arrest. He was indicted in 2018 on a federal civil rights charge for excessive force, but in 2020 prosecutors dropped the charge after the alleged victim testified that […]
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Springfield police officer Leon Davis was caught on body camera using excessive force on a pregnant woman during a September 2020 arrest at a hotel. Despite the woman’s surrender and her telling him she was pregnant, Davis deployed his Taser on her multiple times. He was charged with multiple counts of assault and battery with […]
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West Springfield police captain Brian Pomeroy was arrested and charged in 2022 with two counts of indecent assault and battery for allegedly groping two female officers during an off-duty gathering after the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Day Parade. He was placed on leave and ultimately separated from the department in July 2022, and he awaits trial […]
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Springfield police detective Gregg Bigda was at the center of a 2016 civil rights abuse scandal in which he was caught on video berating and threatening to kill juvenile suspects and plant drugs on them after a car chase. He was federally indicted on multiple civil rights charges and accused of filing false reports, but […]
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West Springfield police captain Daniel Spaulding was indicted in 2018 after an investigation found he had stolen over $17,000 in cash from the department’s evidence room between 2016 and 2017. He later returned the missing money, but in 2021 he was found guilty of using his official position to obtain unwarranted privilege (evidence theft) and […]
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Ocean City Police Officer Ryan Flanagan was sued for excessive force and false arrest after a 2012 incident in which he knocked a man unconscious without cause. The victim, Brenden Thomas, was leaving a nightclub when Flanagan confronted and assaulted him, then arrested him on disorderly conduct charges that were later dropped. Thomas filed a […]
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Ocean City Police Officer Christian Rodden is the subject of a federal lawsuit stemming from a September 2020 use-of-force incident. Rodden fired his Taser twice at 23-year-old Lucas Joaquim, who had his hands raised and posed no threat. Joaquim filed a $500,000 lawsuit in 2022 alleging excessive force and a failure to provide medical care. […]
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