Complaint IAD2014-0534

This is a complaint filed with and/or investigation by the Internal Affairs Division of the Boston Police Department regarding the conduct of one-or-more BPD employees. Learn more about Internal Affairs

IA #
IAD2014-0534
Case #
N/A
Incident Type
Citizen complaint
Received
Nov 3, 2014
Occurred
N/A
Summary

On November 3, 2014 at about 11:50 AM Sgt. Det. Torres spoke to the complainant and her daughter at Police Headquarters. She stated that she received a telephone call from her daughter telling her that Police Officers had come to the house and knocked on the door, when she opened the door there was a police Officer with his gun pointed at her head. She was taken outside the home and the house searched, her daughter had only a tee shirt and shorts on when she was taken outside. Her daughter did not receive an explanation as to what was going on until she asked one of the officers. She was told that they received a telephone call about a female being held hostage and the person had a gun, she was told that the call was for someone in the area and they feel that the police went to the first house they came saw and did not properly investigate where the call was coming from.

Officers and Allegations

Name Title Badge # Allegation Finding Finding Date Action Taken
CHAVES,David Police Officer 977 Neg.Duty/Unreasonable Judge Exonerated Nov 9, 2016
Lawless,Timothy Police Officer 2978 Neg.Duty/Unreasonable Judge Exonerated Nov 9, 2016

Source Materials

This page contains data ingested from the following sources:

Data Source Filename
IAD Cases 2010 through 2020-08-15 iad_cases_2010-01-01_to_2020-08-15.csv
2014 Officer IA Log 2014_Officer__IA_Log_redacted.csv