Lewis v. Caputo

Plaintiff was arrested for criminal possession of a laptop computer stolen from his workplace at the City of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) after he was caught on tape making inculpatory statements to the coworker who sold it to him. The seller (who was wearing a hidden recording device) requested that plaintiff get the laptop back from his girlfriend (to whom he had given it) because “[s]omebody told.” Plaintiff’s first reaction to this request was to ask, not “What are you talking about,” but: *273“Somebody snitched?” In addition, plaintiff responded in the affirmative…