Things that make you shake your head-I was arrested for stealing my own car, says Bronx man

[malaise]

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/25/2011-01-25_bronx_man_i_just_want_my_daughters_to_know_their_father_didnt_break_the_law_i_wa.html#ixzz1CA8KUSMB
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A Bronx man arrested in front of his kids for "stealing" his own car is suing the NYPD for $1 million.

Jamieson Prince, 43, says cops swarmed his 2007 GMC Yukon and cuffed him as he prepared to drive his daughters to school on Nov. 11 - even though he had papers proving ownership.

"I told them it was a mixup and proved to them I owned the car, but they wouldn't listen," Prince, a Norwood resident, told the Daily News.

"My little girls saw me arrested over nothing. It was so painful and humiliating."

[Suich]

1. A "rogue police employee"???

:shrug:

[FiveGoodMen]

2. I hope he wins.

Fuck the cops. (Which is my new motto in life)

[Kennah]

3. Well, if she's cute

[Kennah]

4. Yet another case of DWB

[malaise]

6. Ding ding

We have a winner

[struggle4progress]

18. He's black, but the police went to his house a week or so after he "recovered" the vehicle

and arrested him there. That admits various interpretations, and might only be clarified by a much better description of the actual details, than the news stories seem to provide

Lunchtime Links: Bronx man arrested for stealing his own car, suing the city
Published: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 10:55 AM Updated: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 11:21 AMhttp://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/lunchtime_links_man_arrested_f.html

[toddwv]

5. Wasn't a bit strange that he didn't report that the SUV had been found?

Especially after it had been missing for 4 months?

Something sounds a bit strange...

[struggle4progress]

7. ... Prince explained to police that the vehicle was seized by the 28th Precinct in July

after his 23-year-old son used it to flee a crash scene in Harlem. Cops said the son hit a pedestrian during the escape and the vehicle was obtained for an investigation ...
New York City Man Says Police Arrested Him For Stealing His Own Car
Published January 25, 2011
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/25/new-york-city-man-says-police-arrested-stealing-car/

... He said that .. when he went to the Precinct stationhouse to retrieve his SUV, police couldn't find it. "They had absolutely no idea what happened to it. It had disappeared," said Prince, a track worker ...
26 Jan, 2011, 04.57PM IST,PTI
Man sues NYPD for 1 million dollars for arresting him: Report
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/man-sues-nypd-for-1-million-dollars-for-arresting-him-report/articleshow/7366801.cms

... Miraculously, four months later Prince said he found the Yukon parked near the stationhouse, got in and drove off ...
Man Arrested For Driving His Own Car
http://gothamist.com/2011/01/25/man_arrested_for_driving_his_own_ca.php5

... He says he was locked up for about 24 hours before being released by a judge ... According to court documents, police arrested him because even though the vehicle was officially categorized as lost, "it was still evidence in a case and the defendant did not have lawful custody," and "did not have permission or authority to take, remove, or exercise control over (the vehicle) without first obtaining permission from the New York City Police Department." Earlier this month, on January 12th, almost two and a half months after his arrest the Bronx DA's office dropped the charges against him ... The Bronx DA's office told Eyewitness News that they are working on the paperwork to get it back to him ...
Police keep Bronx man's truck for evidence
Monday, January 24, 2011
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=7916958

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Maybe someone liked that SUV and decided to get some use out of it.

[struggle4progress]

9. It's a strange story. It might well involve a corrupt empoundment employee who wanted a different

set of wheels. But They lost my car, and a few months later I miraculously found it parked on the street is a strange story, too, for a vehicle seized in a criminal investigation of the owner's son. His arrest may have perfectly justifiable, even if the DA eventually determined there wasn't enough evidence to win the case, or even if further investigation demonstrates someone corruptly appropriated his vehicle from empoundment for personal use: I don't know what New York law is, but I expect not every arrest is actionable if charges are dropped, especially if the arresting officers acted in good faith on a reasonable interpretation of appearances

Our records show that vehicle was empounded as evidence
Hey! It's my car!
Our records show that vehicle is unaccountably missing from empoundment
Hey! You all lost it! I later found it parked on the street! It's my car!
Suuure ...

[Gold Metal Flake]

14. Yes, this one certainly warrants a followup.

I wonder if we will ever hear the rest of the story.

[EC]

10. Yeah,

it was lost - but parked on the street in front of station? Someone was using it. I wonder what the mileage was before and after.

[Orsino]

11. "Evidence in a case" parked on the street?

They're "working on the paperwork to get it back to him"?

This is Keystone Kops stuff. I hope valuable lessons can be taught and learned.

[struggle4progress]

15. That's consistent with his version of events. But I don't know the facts for sure,

nor do I know what the various parties might agree to, regarding the facts. As far as I know, everyone might only agree that the car was impounded after the owner's son's flight from an accident, vanished from impoundment, and was subsequently recovered by police from the owner -- and that is consistent with a variety of scenarios. I expect the folk in New York can work this out somehow, independent of any opinion I might finally have in the matter

[Rex]

12. Police can arrest anyone they want to for

any/no good reason. It is called a police state and the first victims are always minorities. My question is; how can he steal what he already owns!? I think a lot of reprimands and a few firings should fix things. I mean, who wants non-thinking morans running around with guns and badges - arresting people, despite evidence of innocence? Not me.

[TroubleMan]

13. It's pretty obvious somebody was joyriding in his car or they were using it

in an undercover investigation. That's why it was outside of the impound lot.

[lonestarnot]

16. Bank must have needed the car for the day.

:shrug: They just take shit when they want it these days. :shrug:

[Odin2005]

17. I bet $100 he's black.