Arizona man demands answers after being misidentified and wrongfully arrested

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... “[They] started asking me, ‘are you Eduardo are you Eduardo, put your hands behind your back you’re being detained.’”

But Manuel isn’t Eduardo. He says he asked for an attorney, but the questions continued and then the agents called Tucson Police to take over.

He says officers told him they have been looking for him since January of 2022 for a dispute with his spouse. None of the details made any sense to him, but he says they didn’t believe him and took him to jail.

“I asked to speak to an attorney when I arrived at the Pima County Jail. They said, ‘We don’t have that here for you; you won't be getting that here. … What is your name? You’re Eduardo aren’t you?’ I said that’s not my name, that’s not who I am. They said, ‘Well you can keep playing that game with us; we don't have time for you.’”

Marquez was put before a judge later that evening.

“And I told him what was going on, and he said: ‘I’m sorry, I can’t help you. I wish you the best of luck on your next court date,’” Marquez recalls.

He says he was not allowed a phone call and was kept in solitary confinement. Meanwhile, his family filed a missing person’s report with the Sheriff’s Department, which ran a check to see if he was in jail.

“The detective in charge assured my family I was not in the Pima County Jail. I could have been there for 10 years; they would have never found me because I was under someone else’s name.” ...