{"id":417,"date":"2018-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:39:03","slug":"man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Wrongfully Arrested for DUI in Police Cover-Up Awarded Almost a Million Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to articles reported in the NY Daily News, in April 2015, Oliver Wiggins was struck by a police cruiser that had run a red light.\u00a0 Instead of offering Mr. Wiggins an apology, however, Brooklyn Police arrested him for drunk driving!\u00a0 A breath test later revealed that Wiggins had consumed no alcohol, and the EMT and DWI technician involved in the arrest both indicated that Mr. Wiggins showed no signs of intoxication.\u00a0 Despite this, the official narrative police report, prepared by City of Brooklyn Police Officer Justin Joseph, indicated that Mr. Wiggins had red watery eyes, slurred speech, an odor of alcohol on his breath and was swaying. \u00a0Mr. Wiggins, a native of Jamaica, claims all of this was false and was only part of an effort by Officer Joseph to cover up for his own wrongdoing!<\/p>\n<p>The prosecuting attorney eventually dismissed the charges against Mr. Wiggins, but Mr. Wiggins still lost his license and had a large repair bill on his car.\u00a0 His insurance company refused to cover the accident because of the DUI arrest.\u00a0 Additionally, Mr. Wiggins&#8217; lawyer claimed that he suffered an injury to his wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the wrongful arrest, Mr. Wiggins hired a lawyer to sue the City.\u00a0 Later, and ostensibly and euphemistically to only &#8220;avoid trial,&#8221; The City of Brooklyn\u00a0paid out nearly One Million Dollars in damages!\u00a0 The worst part of all this is that the officers involved in this egregious abuse of power are still out there on the street making arrests.\u00a0 They have not lost their jobs nor have any charges been filed against them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Man Wrongfully Arrested for DUI in Police Cover-Up Awarded Almost a Million Dollars\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to articles reported in the NY Daily News, in April 2015, Oliver Wiggins was struck by a police cruiser that had run a red light.\u00a0 Instead of offering Mr. Wiggins an apology, however, Brooklyn Police arrested him for drunk driving!\u00a0 A breath test later revealed that Wiggins had consumed no alcohol, and the EMT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-owi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Man Wrongfully Arrested for DUI in Police Cover-Up<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A man who was wrongfully accused of a DUI in a police cover-up four years ago has been awarded almost a million dollars.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Man Wrongfully Arrested for DUI in Police Cover-Up\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A man who was wrongfully accused of a DUI in a police cover-up four years ago has been awarded almost a million dollars.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Barone\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Man Wrongfully Arrested for DUI in Police Cover-Up","description":"A man who was wrongfully accused of a DUI in a police cover-up four years ago has been awarded almost a million dollars.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Man Wrongfully Arrested for DUI in Police Cover-Up","twitter_description":"A man who was wrongfully accused of a DUI in a police cover-up four years ago has been awarded almost a million dollars.","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Patrick Barone","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/"},"author":{"name":"Patrick Barone","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/da00f897e195cfccca02fe556b53136f"},"headline":"Man Wrongfully Arrested for DUI in Police Cover-Up Awarded Almost a Million Dollars","datePublished":"2018-03-19T04:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-08T18:39:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/"},"wordCount":378,"articleSection":["OWI"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/","url":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/","name":"Man Wrongfully Arrested for DUI in Police Cover-Up","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-03-19T04:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-08T18:39:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/da00f897e195cfccca02fe556b53136f"},"description":"A man who was wrongfully accused of a DUI in a police cover-up four years ago has been awarded almost a million dollars.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/man-wrongfully-arrested-for-dui-in-police-cover-up-awarded-almost-a-million-dollars\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Man Wrongfully Arrested for DUI in Police Cover-Up Awarded Almost a Million Dollars"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/","name":"Michigan Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Michigan Criminal Defense Attorney \u2014 Barone Defense Firm","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/da00f897e195cfccca02fe556b53136f","name":"Patrick Barone","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/72accf40078879330cdb7caae27be7ad00db64cb0555444fefa6e1a762116037?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/72accf40078879330cdb7caae27be7ad00db64cb0555444fefa6e1a762116037?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/72accf40078879330cdb7caae27be7ad00db64cb0555444fefa6e1a762116037?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Patrick Barone"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}