Home invasionWitness manipulationFalse arrest or reportExtended detentionOther charges filed
Plaintiff:
Daniel Galindo
Incident date:
02/07/2006
Allegations:
Galindo was charged with 14 counts, including attempted murder, for a crime he did not commit. In Februray 2006, Tomasz Chraca and Andrzej Bryniarski were sitting in a vehicle at a red light in Clearing when a car pulled up and the passenger fired several shots, striking Chraca in the left leg. Chraca was hospitalized and admitted to have been drinking and using marijuana and cocaine that evening. Bryniarski had also been drinking. Bryniarski admitted to officers that he had not seen the shooter and that he would have a difficult time identifying him. Chraca told officers that he also had not seen the shooter, but that he believed him to be a white male in his 20s. The investigation was suspended for lack of leads, but renewed a month later when officers executed a search warrant of Jakub Rozanski, who attempted to flee with a gun. Rozanski, 22, was arrested with Crawford, 24, and Parker, 26—all white males. Officers found that Rozanski's gun was the same gun used in the shooting of Chraca. In a line-up, Chraca and Bryniarski identified Crawford as someone resembling the shooter. The investigator in the case requested to interview Crawford and Rozanski where Rozanski was told that the gun he had been arrested with had been used in a shooting. Rozanski denied that Crawford was the shooter and instead named Galindo. He said that Galindo had been a passenger in the car with him and Crawfod. He had only been holding on to the gun at Galindo's request. A search warrant for Galindo's home was obtained with claims that drugs would be found. No drugs were found. Galindo was brought in for questioning and used in a line-up where Chraca was asked to identify his shooter. He was not able to make a positive identification, but was prompted by detectives to go with Galindo. Bryniarski was also not able to make a positive identification, but had asked Chraca earlier about who he had picked. Galindo was charged and spent two years in jail. He was found not guilty of the charges.