Torts False arrest
A 58-year-old deaf man who called police in 2008 to report a burglary only to find himself in handcuffs for assaulting a law enforcement officer is suing the county for police brutality and false arrest. The lawsuit, filed Sept. 14 in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, came 19 months after prosecutors dropped all charges against Stephen Pyles of Pasadena.
Police officers who arrested and charged the wrong man were entitled to qualified immunity in his suit for false arrest, even though they failed to confirm the perpetrator's address and fingerprint evidence exonerated the plaintiff, the 11th Circuit has ruled. A man reported to the police that the roofer he hired to repair hurricane damage to his roof had victimized him. Officers investigated and made an arrest, but later realized that the arrestee had been misidentified and was not the perpetrator.
A man pursued by Duane "Dog" Chapman has sued the television bounty hunter and his crew, alleging they falsely claimed he had fired a gun at them in a Colorado Springs parking lot while filming an episode in April 2009. Hoang Minh Phung Nguyen contends that Chapman, his sons Duane Chapman II and Leland Blane Chapman and local bail bondsman Bobby Brown defamed him and had him falsely arrested.
Justin and Kristyn Seeley say two New Orleans police officers punched and kicked them, threw them into a brick wall and ultimately arrested them on false charges all because they didn't like the way Justin laughed. The officers in question, Sgt. Raymond Genovese and Officer Keith Ambrose, claim the Seeleys were highly intoxicated, aggressive and that Justin Seeley slapped Ambrose on the buttocks.
Wilson High School's baseball coaches may have a difficult legal hill to climb in their planned false-arrest lawsuits against the State Police and the City of Lockport. Two prominent local attorneys who have won false-arrest suits, but who are not connected with these cases, said it doesn't matter that the charges against Thomas J. Baia and William M. Atlas eventually were dropped.
An East Baltimore man who spent nearly a month in jail on assault and robbery charges, even though the alleged victim said he was not involved in the December 2009 incident, has settled his suit against the arresting officers for $75,000. David Harris, 21, accepted the city's offer on Sunday, according to his attorney, just hours before a jury trial in the case was scheduled to begin in Baltimore City Circuit Court.
During the September moose hunt, my son was falsely arrested for being a felon with a firearm which would have also resulted in my arrest since the gun was mine. I'm a 75-year-old with heart and other related problems. This bothered me so much I had to give up two days of moose hunting, which was embarrassing and very costly to me, a person on a fixed income.
The leader of a Latino advocacy group has sued the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on allegations that deputies illegally arrested him while he stood watching a protest in the days immediately following a judge's ruling on SB1070. Salvador Reza of Puente contends in the lawsuit filed Oct. 27 that he was simply standing on the sidewalk across the street from the Lower Buckeye Jail, 3250 W. Lower Buckeye Road, on July 30 when deputies crossed the street and arrested him without provocation.
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