Rivera v. Village of Dobbs Ferry

—In an action to recover damages, inter alia, for malicious prosecution and false arrest, the plaintiff appeals from an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Scarpino, J.), entered January 12, 1996, which granted the defendants’ respective motions for summary judgment and dismissed the complaint.

Ordered that the order and judgment is affirmed, with one bill of costs.

The plaintiff was arrested for participating in a scheme to extort money from the complainant in exchange for the return of her car, which had been stolen by her boyfriend. Although the plaintiff…