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Source: Albuquerque Journal, N.迷你倉M.Sept. 07--The son of a former Santa Fe police detective is suing city government and five city officers over the son's arrest two years ago, alleging officers had no grounds to pull him over for a traffic stop and then charge him with various offenses.The lawsuit doesn't contend that the arrest of Jose Valencia, who was 17 at the time of the traffic stop, is related to the high-profile firing of his father from the Santa Fe Police Department in 2010.But former Det. Jose Valencia said in an interview Friday that the bust of the son was intended as payback against the father."Oh, absolutely, we believe that," the ex-cop said.The former detective says the officers who charged his son in September 2011 thought that he -- the older Valencia -- was in the car they pulled over on Cerrillos Road. "The license plate came back to me," he said.He said he's filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, alleging that his son's bust was illegal retaliation against a witness.Last year, Valencia Sr. filed a federal court lawsuit alleging wrongful termination from the police department. The son is a witness in the suit, the father said.The suit, which named several officers as defendants, along with the department administration, alleged Det. Valencia was retaliated against for uncovering wrongful acts by other officers, refusing to give in as the police officers' union head during contract negotiations and uncovering overtime fraud within the department.Valencia's firing came after he was accused of agreeing to provide guns to a drug dealer with knowledge the dealer would use the weapons to commit murder. The evidence against him included recordings of conversations between Valencia and the drug dealer captured by the FBI.Valencia, who also was stripped of his law enforcement license for life by the state Law Enforcement Board, maintains he was the victim of an entrapment scheme.Police Chief Ray Rael said Friday he couldn't comment on the younger Valencia's lawsuit, the father's comments about the son's arrest or an internal affairs investigation that Valencia Sr. says cleared the officers involved in the arrest of his son.Former Det. Valencia said he's been threatened by many Santa Fe officers and told he needed to drop his litigation. "If not, they were going to get me or get my family," he said.Son's allegationsThe new suit filed by the younger Valencia in state District Court Thursday maintains that the teen, who was driving a 2003 Chevy Impala wit儲存倉 two friends as passengers, was pulled over by Officer Heinz De Luca although he hadn't committed any traffic violations. De Luca and another officer then grilled the teens about drugs and drug paraphernalia.The suit says Valencia was ordered out of the car for a search without any probable cause and when he "asserted his right to remain in the vehicle" until his father arrived, he was "forcibly removed" from the car.Valencia repeatedly asked why he was being detained and questioned the officers' right to search the car, but was "not using fighting words," and his treatment amounted to a violation of free speech rights, the suit argues.Officers "manhandled" Valencia, "twisting his hands, arms, neck, and back and applying an unreasonable amount of force and pressure to (his) body for an extended period of time," the suit states. Valencia was handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car.De Luca charged Valencia with obstructing an officer, resisting arrest, failure to use headlamps while driving at night and possession of a controlled substance.Dash-cam video from De Luca's patrol car "clearly shows" that Valencia had his headlights on, according to the suit."There was no reason to pull him over at all," the younger Valencia's lawyer, Frances Carpenter of Albuquerque, said Friday.Carpenter also said the video backs up the other allegations in the suit about the officers' treatment of the teenaged Valencia and shows he was not resisting the officers.The charges were eventually dismissed in children's court. Carpenter said Valencia was accused of having marijuana that turned out to be Spice, or synthetic marijuana, which she said was not illegal at the time of the arrest.The suit seeks unspecified punitive and compensatory damages from the officers involved and from the city.Complained to SFPDValencia Sr. said he filed a complaint about his son's arrest that led to the internal affairs SFPD probe "once I was able to see the dash-cam video," about four months after the arrest."He (the son) was completely compliant until they started to pull him" when he was still restrained by his seat belt, the father said."They were there to hurt him, if you watch the video," he added."It was an illegal traffic stop," former Det. Valencia said. "They went for me and if it wasn't me, they went after the child."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) Visit the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) at .abqjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉價錢