White was leaving an apartment building when Officer Rotkvich and others arrested him. The officers went into the building and found illegal items in an apartment. They filed false reports claiming White had admitted to selling drugs and had admitted to being the individual named in a search warrant. The reports also included statements that White lived in the apartment and that officers had found proof of residence, which in fact was a piece of mail addressed to someone with a different name in a different apartment. White was charged with drug possession and held at Cook County Jail until he was acquitted a year and a half later.