How a Hispanic Lawyer’s Innocent Mistake Led to Unjust Accusations and Jail Time

Tremendous problem in which he was involved a lawyer of Hispanic origin, who lives in Denver, after ended up in jail, after being accused of being a thief, without it really being, and all for a serious mistake he made with his car license plates.

According to EFE, the Hispanic lawyer, identified as Manuel Diego Soza, he threw his old license plates in the trash, same as fThey were taken by a criminal and used to do various misdeeds.

According to the Westminster police report, Soza was arrested at his apartment last April after Morgan Arrick, the detective in charge of the case, determined that the man was responsible for the theft of a horn from a well-known supermarket.

The confusion was due to the fact that Soza, from Texas, decided to go at the beginning of the year to throw his old license plates into a landfill in that state, once he had obtained the ones from Colorado. The lawyer made the change in the parking lot of an auto parts store and dumped the old one in a public place.

On April 18, Westminster Police responded to a reported stolen speaker (less than $200). Seeing the uniformed officers, the thief fled, although the agents managed to capture the license plate of the vehicle and they described the suspect as a Hispanic man driving a Subaru car. The plate was the one Soza had thrown away.

As if that weren’t enough, the Hispanic lawyer also owns a Subaru, so Arrick decided to arrest him, because he was the main suspect in having committed said crime.

Was Thanks to a security camera, the man was able to prove his innocence, since the video showed that the thief has several tattoos and Soza has none. In addition, in the images you can see a man between the ages of 18 and 25; the lawyer is 32, and he is also about 12 centimeters taller than the robber.

In the same way, it was possible to verify that the criminal’s vehicle and Soza’s are of different models and colors, although they are of the same brand. In addition, he was able to show that At the time of the robbery, he was elsewhere, so he was finally released.

Now, this man could file a lawsuit against the Westminster Police and Arrick, since he considers that his detention was arbitrary and that the authorities got carried away simply because they saw that he was a person with a Hispanic surname.

In addition, with this he intends that the event does not affect his career and he wishes to recover everything that this inconvenience caused him to spend, thus hoping that similar cases will not be repeated.

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