Man gets 4 years and $335,000 for heroin sales [VA]

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Man gets 4 years and $335,000 for heroin sales [VA]

#6327606 - 12/02/06 05:03 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

Norfolk to pay $335,000 to man who lost eye after arrest scuffle
^{By the Associated Press}
December 2, 2006 - dailypress.com

NORFOLK, Va. -- The city has agreed to pay $335,000 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a man who lost an eye because of injuries he received during his 2003 arrest after selling heroin to an undercover police officer.

Thomas James Frazier, 37, alleged that an officer struck him in the face while he was handcuffed, injuring his eye so badly that it had to be surgically removed. He alleged that police used excessive force and that the department failed to investigate the incident.

City Attorney Bernard Pishko said he thinks the amount is the highest settlement Norfolk has paid in an excessive-force complaint. The city agreed to a $200,000 settlement with the family a motorist who died during a traffic stop in 2000.

In Frazier's case, the city and the officers named admitted no wrongdoing as part of the settlement. Officers denied striking Frazier's eye, according to court papers.

After legal costs and expenses, and his hospital bills--the amount of which is in dispute--Frazier will collect at least $160,829, according to the settlement. Pishko declined to say if any officers were disciplined, saying that was a personnel matter.

Frazier was sentenced to more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to heroin distribution.

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