Embattled NYPD Bronx Detective David Terrell just won his battle over a lawsuit claiming that he improperly played a game of dice to determine a young man’s fate — resulting in Terrell being stripped of his gun and badge.
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday granted Terrell’s motion to dismiss a high-profile false arrest case filed by Bronx resident Kenny Shenery, who claimed Terrell made a wager on Shenery’s freedom after falsely arresting him in 2015.
Instead of arresting Sherney right away, Terrell stopped to wager on a game of dice with Sherney’s friends — betting that if he lost the game Shenery would be set free. And if he won, Shenery and all his pals would be arrested.
Despite losing the game of dice, Terrell arrested Shenery anyway, according to Sherney’s lawsuit against Terrell and the city.
On Friday, Manhattan federal judge Lorna Schofield dismissed Sherney’s lawsuit, saying that Terrell had probable cause to arrest the then-teenager over the loud music he was accused of playing because there had been an outstanding bench warrant for his arrest.
Also, Shenery pleaded guilty to blasting his car radio at unreasonable levels, the judge said.
It’s at least the seventh civil lawsuit alleging police misconduct against Terrell to be tossed.
This particular lawsuit was based in part on cellphone video broadcast in December 2016 by NBC4 that showed Terrell shooting dice with a group of men in the Bronx, resulting in him being placed on modified duty.
Terrell told The Post last year that the offer to possibly release Sherney was meant to be a humorous attempt to get along with Shenery’s friends.
“The dice game was basically me showing them ‘I’m one of you guys,’ ” he said.
“The ruling is as expected. There was no legal basis for the lawsuit, just like all the other lawsuits,” said Terrell’s lawyer Eric Sanders.
“A whole bunch of schemers and fraudsters, that’s what they are,” Sanders said of the people targeting Terrell for legal action.
Terrell has been the subject of over a dozen lawsuits and three dozen Civilian Complaint Review Board complaints. But one by one, he is seeing them tossed.
Last week, a judge tossed a lawsuit by Shaun Nardoni, who claims Terrell shot Nardoni and then falsely arrested him in an effort to coerce him to lie about who shot him.
Meanwhile, Terrell, 45, has lobbed his own $175 million notice of claim against the city, saying it created a “cottage industry” of gang-bangers who collect taxpayer money with bogus complaints of police misconduct.