According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Neal Brown was arrested in Needles, California, on January 10, 2020, and released to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police on January 22, 2020. Neal Brown, meanwhile, was arrested two days after the traffic stop that put Lee Brown in jail. Now he wants the record set straight, Hawaii Innocence Project saysĭespite the differences, Lee Brown was arrested and spent six days in jails at two Las Vegas-area jurisdictions – Henderson Detention Center and Clark County Detention Center, the lawsuit said. He was committed to a Hawaii state hospital for nearly 3 years in a case of mistaken identity. Shane Neal Brown, 49, had an outstanding felony bench warrant for ownership or possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, records show. Though the two shared the same first and last name, police did not check for their middle names, the color of their skin and date of birth, according to the lawsuit. He acknowledged to police he had a traffic violation-related warrant, his attorney later told CNN, and had a court date scheduled for the following day.īut after a records check under Brown’s name, a felony warrant for another man named Shane Brown appeared, the lawsuit said. It was a routine traffic stop for driving an unregistered vehicle, the Henderson Police Department told CNN in a statement Monday.īrown, who is Black, did not have his driver’s license but instead gave police his name, Social Security number and Social Security card, the lawsuit said. Shane Lee Brown is now asking for at least $500,000 in damages.īrown, 25, had finished work on January 8, 2020, and was driving in Henderson, Nevada – 14 miles outside of Las Vegas – when Henderson City Police officers pulled him over, the lawsuit, filed in US District Court of Nevada, details. ![]() ![]() A Black man spent six days in jail in Nevada because police misidentified him as a convicted White felon who is more than twice his age, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the police departments of Henderson and Las Vegas.
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