Plaintiff:
Candido Montano, Jr.
Incident date:
07/20/2011
Location:
2018 N. Pulaski Rd.
Allegations:
Montano was leaving his mother's house when three plainclothes officers drove up the street in an unmarked car. As Montano got into his car, the officers jumped out and began searching another man in front of the house next door. The officers yelled at Montano to come over, then searched him and accused him of being a gangbanger. Montano said he wasn't a gangbanger and wasn't with the other man, but was just visiting his mother's house. Two officers began searching near the house next door to his mother's house, and shortly after one of them came back to Montano and said he had found something. Montano never saw what the officers had supposedly found. The officers then told Montano they were arresting him for possession of marijuana and took him to a police station so officers could issue him a ticket. But at the station, Montano was instead brought to the lockup. He told officers that he was diabetic and needed to have an insulin shot by 5:30 p.m., but his repeated requests were ignored. Montano collapsed sometime after 8:00 p.m. and was taken by ambulance to West Suburban Medical Center for treatment. Montano incurred $5,000 in hospital bills and had to miss one week of work while he recovered.