Officer Detail: John C. Garcia

General Information

Name John C. Garcia
OpenOversight ID 84048
Department [NY] Buffalo Police Department
Race Hispanic
Gender Male
Birth Year (Age) Data Missing
First Employment Date 1994-02-04
Number of known incidents 1
Currently on the force No

Assignment History

Job Title Badge No. Unit Start Date End Date
Detective D272 Unknown
Detective Erie County Sheriff 2021-08-10 2021-08-10

Descriptions

  • Field Not Available

    Current Erie County Sheriff pushing for a new jail

Salary

Annual Salary Overtime Total Pay Year
$6,407.00 FY2020

Incidents

Incident 242

Date Jun 03, 2013
Department Buffalo Police Department
Officers Joseph M. Cook , John C. Garcia , Daniel Derenda
Description

Police busted down a door of a Breckenridge apartment belonging to Iraqi War combat veteran, Sgt. Adam Arroyo in Buffalo looking for drugs. In the process, the police shot Arroyo's dog Cindy multiple times, killing the dog.

Police claim they read his address wrong. They meant to raid the upstairs front apartment at 304 Breckenridge St, but they became confused and raided the rear apartment. Busting down Arroyo’s door, they found that he was not at home. His dog Cindy, a pit bull, was tethered to the sink in the kitchen.

Detective Joseph Cook, accompanied by a SWAT team of police, chose to stand beyond the length of tether and shoot Cindy, as opposed to wasting the time it would take to get animal control into the house and place the dog in a kennel.

After Cindy was shot, animal control arrived and unloosened her from her bloodied leash. The impact of the bullet had thrown the dog, and it had become entangled around her neck. They were inconvenienced as they unwound her leash and untethered her, removing her carcass in a body bag.

Without realizing it was not the apartment named on the search warrant, police were inconvenienced as they ransacked the apartment. Blood from the dog got on their boots and, despite wiping it off on the carpet, they spread it all over the apartment. Some of it stuck like plague to their boots.
Address Breckenridge
Buffalo, NY

Links

  • 'We need to tighten our borders': Erie County Sheriff sends message after drug busts in Buffalo and
    "What can we do to stop this," Erie County Sheriff John Garcia asked while speaking in Buffalo at a news conference where authorities announced new drug-related arrests. He then answered, "On the national level, we need to tighten our borders." - WKBW
  • No New Jail
    Erie County Sheriff Garcia wants county taxpayers to buy him a new jail, and County Executive Mark Poloncarz plans to allocate $2.5 million for site acquisition, engineering and architectural design to build the jail. Garcia estimates a new jail would cost $200 million. - FTPWNY
  • A purchase by the sheriff with limited value
    The Erie County Legislature has rubber stamped a grant to buy drug detection testers that are inadmissible in court, in part because they're often inaccurate. - Investigative Post | Bruce Rushton
  • Democrats’ fundraiser for GOP sheriff candidate turns noisy, as protesters show up
    A fundraiser for Republican Erie County Sheriff candidate John Garcia at a Richmond Avenue home in Buffalo turned noisy when protesters against the event turned up. At the center of the dispute is outgoing Sheriff Tim Howard, a Republican who is to blame for a long roll call of deaths inside the county Holding Center. - Investigative Post | Mike Desmond
  • Jail deaths substantially higher than reported
    Erie County's two jails are even deadlier than commonly believed. The death toll the past two decades is not in the mid 30s, as previously reported, but 57, many from poor medical care. While Sheriff John Garcia's office cites improvements, the pace of inmate deaths has not lessened under his watch. - Investigative Post | Bruce Rushton
  • Letter by Rep Nick Langworthy to Committee on Appropriations requesting funding for helicopter
    Congressman Langworthy requests funding for Police, Search & Rescue Helicopter Procurement in fiscal year 2025 for the Erie County Sheriff’s Office. - Nick Langworthy
  • Sheriff's Office can leave old office space after new $8M deal is approved
    After intense, last-minute lobbying by the Erie County sheriff and others, the County Legislature voted 10-1 to pay for a 10-year, $8 million lease that enables SWAT and other special units to move into a new space. - Buffalo News | Sandra Tan
  • Smart law enforcement or Big Brother?
    The Erie County Sheriff wants to buy x-ray technology typically used by the military to scan vehicles. The request has raised privacy concerns, especially because no rules have been proposed to govern its use. - Investigative Post | Bruce Rushton

Other videos

Videos

  • Woman sues Erie County Sheriff after her father died at the Erie County Holding Center
    The daughter of a man who died after becoming unresponsive at the Erie County Holding Center is now suing Erie County Sheriff John Garcia. - WKBW
  • Jail deaths substantially higher than reported
    Erie County's two jails are even deadlier than commonly believed. The death toll the past two decades is not in the mid 30s, as previously reported, but 57, many from poor medical care. While Sheriff John Garcia's office cites improvements, the pace of inmate deaths has not lessened under his watch. - Investigative Post | Bruce Rushton