Innocent man sues cops for $1.5million after they used faulty Google GPS data to arrest him for murder
AN INNOCENT man is suing Arizona police for $1.5 million after he was falsely arrested and held on murder charges, because Google’s GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the crime.
The case against him quickly fell apart, and Mr Molina was release from jail without charge six days later when prosecutors noted numerous inconsistencies with the location data that had tied him to the killing. A year after the arrest, Mr Molina last month filed a $1.5million lawsuit against the city of Avondale and members of its police department over their faulty reliance on Google's data.
Mr Molina was also forced to drop out of school, having missing too many classes of the accelerated college program he was enrolled in. Mr Molina’s lawyers added police were aware that Mr Molina was not the sole driver of the Honda registered under his name, as his stepfather – a man with a history of violence and a warrant out in California – often drove it without his permission.
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