CONWAY, SC (WBTW) – The son of a former detective with Horry County Police claims he was falsely arrested in December of 2014 and believes he is due compensation after the arresting officer “purposefully misrepresented facts in order to gain recognition in the community,” according to a recently filed lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Joshua Allen Large, the son of former detective Allen Large, who is the defendant in multiple lawsuits with claims from different women of sexual abuse. Attorney for Joshua Large, Bonnie Travaglio Hunt, expresses in the lawsuit that her client was attending a basketball game with several friends at St. James High School on December 2, 2014, when he and his friends “were hassled by several other Conway High School students.”
The documents detail that Joshua Large did not have any interaction with the Conway High students, and that when a fight broke out between students from the two schools, Joshua Large and a friend attempted to break up the fight. Video evidence of the altercation was captured on school cameras, in addition to other videos that were provided to police, the lawsuit claims.
Joshua Large provided a statement to police and to the school. As a result, Large was suspended from school for just more than two days and was arrested by Horry County Police 10 days after the fight, charged with disturbing schools, the lawsuit reads.
The defendants in this case, Horry County Police, Kenneth Marcus, Tina Vaught, Chief Saundra Rhodes, Raul Dennis, Stan Strickland and Scott Rutherford are accused of “violating the law when arresting [Joshua Large] by not having probably cause.”
The lawsuit goes on to claim that despite Joshua Large’s father being an employee of the Horry County Police Department at the time and having the availability to surrender his son at the station, the defendants arrested Joshua Large “at school in order to embarrass, humiliate and damage his reputation in the community.”
The criminal charges were expunged from Joshua Large’s record, and his attorney now believes because of emotional distress, loss of employment, loss of future employment, damage to his educational career and damage to his reputation, Joshua Large is entitled to lost wages, front pay, future lost wages, punitive damages and more.
