Alcides Arenas v. County of Nassau

—In an action to recover damages for false arrest and malicious prosecution, the defendants Village of Freeport and Freeport Police Department appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Kohn, J.), dated November 13, 1995, as denied that branch of their motion pursuant to CPLR 3216 which was to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against them.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, that branch of the motion which was to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against the appellants is…