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Bodycam footage shows the moment a black man was arrested under a warrant for a white man with the same name after police said: 'I’m pretty sure it’s going to be you.'
Shane Lee Brown, 25, was arrested on a bench warrant and spent six days in jail after being pulled over for a traffic violation on January 8, 2020, despite telling police repeatedly that he was the 'wrong guy.'
He did not have identification at the time, but told the men his social security number - which can include a middle name. When law enforcement ran it, a bench warrant popped up for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
Shane Neal Brown, then-49, was busted for a gun charge in 2019, but failed to appear in court in November of that year. A judge put out a bench warrant for his arrest at the time, ordering no bail if he was found.
Shane Neal Brown's rap sheet dates back to a felony in 1994 and he was charged five times in 2019 alone. He's described as being an older white man with brown hair and blue eyes, has a beard and stands at 5-feet-11-inches tall. Shane Lee Brown, who was 23 at the time, is a 5-foot-7 black man who told police he had only been arrested for traffic violations.
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Shane Lee Brown (left), a black man, 25, was wrongfully arrested after being mistaken for then-49-year-old white man, Shane Neal Brown (right) on January 8, 2020. The young man told multiple officers that he was not the right man, but authorities failed to review reports, keeping him in jail for six days
Bodycam footage shows the moment an officer told Shane Lee Brown: 'I’m pretty sure it’s going to be you,' despite Lee Brown insistently asking for them to run it again
Shane Lee Brown was pulled over for a traffic violation on January 8, 2020. Henderson police still say he was 'lawfully' arrested for traffic violation and driving under a suspended license
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Despite telling 'numerous unknown Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers and supervisors' that he was not the same Shane Brown they were looking for, officers failed to properly verify their suspect and filed paperwork on January 10, 2020, saying they had 'Shane Neal Brown' in custody.
New bodycam footage, obtained by News 8 Now, shows Shane Lee Brown being pulled over around 4:44pm for not having 'any headlights on at all.'
Brown tells them his license is 'suspended' and he is going to court the next day to take care of it.
Later on, the footage shows Brown sitting on the curb while two officers discuss arresting him. One officer can be heard saying: 'If he has court tomorrow, we don’t want to arrest him. That would be dumb.'
His SCOPE number, a system used throughout Nevada police and courts, shows the man was born in 1971 and white with blue eyes and brown hair
Several mug shots for Shane Neil Brown are filed under his SCOPE number, including two before the 2020 arrest
Minutes later, the officers approach and tell him they need to 'figure some stuff out.'
'You got arrested for something with a weapon,' he said. 'Not ringing a bell?'
'No, wrong guy,' Shane Lee Brown responded.
