PATERSON CORRUPT COPS: Eudy Ramos, Matthew Torres violating the citizen’s civil rights | 03/05/18
Channel: Paterson Wildest
Date: 2019-01-07

Lost Footages - Where you can clearly see former Paterson Police Officers (Eudy Ramos) on 1:13 and (Matthew Torres) on 1:55 working in Tag-Teams violating the citizens civil rights near the intersection off 7 Avenue & East 26 street in Paterson.

Authorities said Eudy Ramos and other police officers, Jonathan Bustios, Matthew Torres, and other unnamed officers, from 2016 to April 2018, targeted, stopped, and searched vehicles to extract cash from occupants. Sometimes used fake paperwork to trick individuals into believing that their cash seizures and vehicle stops were legitimate.

The same officers also illegally stopped and searched people in buildings or on the streets of Paterson to seize cash. Funds seized was split among the group. Police reports filed of the incidents made no mention of their illegal conduct.
Ramos and other officers communicated using euphemisms via text messages to carry out their conspiracy.

MANGO 🥭 = Was their code-word for CASH (illegal cash seizures)  

“I’m tryin’ to go mango hunting. Let’s gooo”  Bustios texted Toledo. Toledo replied with an address and said to meet him there. One stop on Dec. 2, 2017, netted $1,000, which Ramos and Toledo split, authorities said.

“Who’s in the mood for weekend mangoes” Bustios texted Torres on Feb. 24, 2018.  

Some times the texts were plain.
“Wanna look for a car?” Ramos texted Bustios on Feb. 25, 2018. “Tryna get someone in a car.”

On some occasions the police officers identified buildings to hit for cash.

“83 auburn back door is open,” Bustios texted Ramos on Dec. 7, 2017.
“On my way,” replied Ramos.
83 Auburn Street was one of several locations the officers targeted for illegal cash seizures, authorities said.

Matthew Torres, testified outlining how the group targeted Black and Brown men in Paterson who they suspected may have money on them.

He said they stopped drivers in nice cars or searched those who hung out near bodegas or apartment complexes in the city. 

“What was it that you all were hoping to gain?” asked Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Kearney.

“Cash,” Matthew Torres quickly responded.

“We preyed on any civilian resident within the city of Paterson,” he testified. “We abused our power to try and obtain cash.”

Torres said Cheff made that possible.

(Cheff was one of two sergeants — a direct supervisor — for their patrol shift, but he was the one that the group went to sign off on their bogus reports, Torres said)

“He wouldn’t question how the job was done,” Torres said.

Torres also testified that officers knew to make sure Cheff received some of the stolen proceeds.

Some of the illegal conducts of the officers include:

Feb. 1, 2017, Ramos and another officer stopped and searched a vehicle. Occupants were handcuffed and $10,000 in cash was seized from one passenger.
Ramos and his co-conspirator split the proceeds. Their police reports did not mention the $10,000.
Dec. 1, 2017, Ramos and Bustios stopped and searched a person on a street corner. Both took $1,000 from the person. After the alleged theft, a video of a portion of the encounter was posted on Twitter, authorities said.
Dec. 7, 2017, Torres and Ramos stopped a vehicle. Both searched the car, driver, and passenger. Passenger had $3,100 and marijuana.
Ramos told the passenger he could pay $500 and avoid a drug charge. Ramos then purportedly made a phone call and told the passenger his superior said it had to be $800. Ramos took out a paper, wrote on it, and had the passenger sign it.
Torres and Ramos later released the driver and passenger. Both shared the stolen cash. Their reports did not mention the stop and search of the vehicle and its occupants or the cash seizure.
Feb. 20, 2018, Ramos illegally stopped a vehicle and stole $1,800.
March 5, 2018, Ramos and Torres stopped and searched a vehicle, without legal basis. The occupants of the encounter filmed the encounter, Ramos did not locate any cash inside the vehicle and departed the scene without taking anything.

Ramos is one of five police officers netted in the FBI probe. Jonathan Bustios, Daniel Pent, Matthew Torres, Frank Toledo

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Police Officer Eudy Ramos, 35, of Paterson, was sentenced to 24 months in prison. Ramos previously pleaded guilty to Counts One and Seven of an indictment against him, charging him with conspiracy to violate individuals’ civil rights and filing a false police report. Ramos also pleaded guilty to an information charging him with using unreasonable and excessive force in violation of individuals’ civil rights.
 

Police Officer Matthew Torres, 33, of Paterson, was sentenced to three years of probation. Torres previously pleaded guilty to an information charging him with conspiracy to violate individuals’ civil rights and filing a false police report.


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