When Joseph Carnevale chopped up three stolen orange and white traffic barrels from a construction site to create a massive sculpture of a roadside monster thumbing a ride, the North Carolina college student said he saw it as a form of street art.
Acting off a tip from detective Omar Abdullah, fired for his role in a fake heroin scheme, RPD officers raided the wrong apartment without consent, searched two mothers and their children, and detained them while ransacking the home, the suit alleges