Tag Archives: police misconduct

Two retired cops must pay $7 million to a man they framed who served 26 years in prison for rape and murder until he was exonerated based on DNA evidence. Anthony Caravella was a 15-year-old with an IQ of 67 when he was arrested in 1983 by Miramar, Fla., police officers, William Mantesta and George Pierson, for stealing a bike. The two officers kept him in custody for a week and he eventually confessed to the rape and murder of …

In the largest police misconduct case in Chicago history, the city will pay $22.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a woman who was raped and fell from a seventh-story window after officers left her in a high-crime area. Christina Eilman was a 21-year-old college student when she was arrested at Midway Airport in May of 2006 because she was acting strangely and violently. She was taken to a holding cell where she continued babbling incoherently and smearing menstrual blood …

A California woman is filing suit against Imperial County and a sheriff’s sergeant for what she alleges was an improper strip search. Earlier this year, plaintiff Ana Hicks alleged in court documents that she was falsely arrested and subjected to the inappropriate search during booking at the Imperial County Jail. At the time of the alleged incident, Hicks was being charged with a misdemeanor for public drunkenness. The arrest occurred on the night of Dec. 26, 2010, after Hicks ran …