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Case 13-CV-2559

$35,000

ILLEGAL SEARCH/SEIZURE

Home invasion Minor Illegal search/seizure

Plaintiff: Amado Arteaga

Incident date: 03/15/2013

Location: 5145 S. Sawyer Ave.

Allegations:

Arteaga was at home with his two children when Officers Castaneda and Falardeau showed up with his estranged wife. The officers, who did not have a warrant or a court order, demanded to come inside and told Arteaga to turn his children over to his wife. Arteaga asked them to prove they had the authority to make the request, but Castaneda and Falardeau refused to share any information and said that he would be arrested if he kept talking and did not to turn over his children. Arteaga complied.

RAQUEL CASTANEDA

POLICE OFFICER

23681
$140,000 total payments

DAVID FALARDEAU

SERGEANT OF POLICE

28884
$47,500 total payments