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A BROOKLYN man’s apartment was turned upside down and his pet disappeared after an NYPD raid of his home, according to a new lawsuit.
Derrick Williams, 33, says he left his East New York studio apartment in order, with his two cats, Munchy, and a Russian Blue he’d recently been given, safely inside when he went to the Bronx for a weekend in November 2016.
When Williams returned home, he said “it was like a tornado went through it,” with a busted door, a broken lock, his belongings on the floor, keepsakes from his dad trashed, his mattress ripped, and furniture fractured.
What police didn’t leave behind 31, police said. was a warrant justifying the search — or his Russian Blue, according to his suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court on Friday. “They just totally destroyed my place. I feel I was violated because I wasn’t there,” he said.
A rep for the city Law Department said it would “review the complaint and respond accordingly.” A QUEENS man suckerpunched during a cell phone robbery has died of his injuries — and detectives are weighing homicide charges against two teens charged in the attack, police sources said Tuesday.
Mohammad Alam, 72, died at St. John’s Queens Hospital on Jan.
The Bangladeshi immigrant (photo) had been on life support since the Sept. 28 robbery in front of MIM Wireless on Hillside Ave. near 167th St. in Jamaica Hills.
Shyquan Kimble and Jaleel Steele, both 16, were arrested Oct. 3. They are being held at Rikers Island on robbery and assault charges. A STAGGERING $45 million settlement settled a seven-year court battle pitting 260 patients against a corrupt Dutchess County doctor accused of medical malpractice.
The litigants in the case involving Dr. Spyros Panos finally reached an agreement with insurance carriers for the physician — who spent nearly three years in jail for a $2.5 million health care fraud conviction.
“It is a really egregious case,” said Nancy McGee, attorney for 159 of the patients. “The agreement will never fix any of these people or make them whole again.
“But the agreement we reached is reasonable and fair.”
Panos, 49, was accused of botching some operations, performing unnecessary surgery on healthy patients and conducting “phantom surgeries” — cutting patients open, then closing them up without doing a thing.
According to McGee, the payouts will be determined in part by a point system weighing a number of factors, with each point worth $2,500 in damages.
“We have people who will never work again,” said McGee. “Some really bad things happened — some surgery people who can’t lift their arms above shoulder height.
“There are a lot of patients with significant limitations and ongoing pain.”
Panos (photo), who practiced in Poughkeepsie, was released from federal prison in March 2017 for his guilty plea to health care fraud.
According to McGee, some of her clients were disappointed that Panos only faced criminal charges on the financial end of his operation.
“They feel like he only went to prison for half of what we allege he did,” she said. “They feel like they really suffered badly, and don’t feel like he got enough of a punishment.”