MARINERS HARBOR — A Staten Island man who sued the NYPD in 2007 after two officers dumped him in a swamp was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after police found him carrying a gun, the District Attorney's office said.
Rayshawn Moreno, 20, was arrested in October after an officer spotted a loaded .40-caliber handgun sticking out of his waistband near the Mariners Harbor Houses, court papers said.
Moreno pleaded guilty in December to criminal possession of a weapon and was sentenced Tuesday to three-and-a-half years in state prison, plus two-and-a-half years post-release supervision, according to the DA's office.
On Halloween 2007, when Moreno was 14, two NYPD officer punished him by dumping him into a Bloomfield marshland without his shoes or shirt after they caught him pelting cars with eggs, the Daily News reported.
He later sued and was awarded $140,000 from the city and $5,000 from both officers, Richard Danese and Thomas Elliassen, the News reported.
Since the incident, Moreno has had numerous other run-ins with the law.
