A false positive test misidentifying baking soda as a mixture of fentanyl and horse tranquilizer is what landed a Pennsylvania man in a notorious New York prison for two weeks, the state Attorney General’s Office wrote in recent filings in federal court.
Amicar Maldonado Montengudo spent two weeks in Rikers Island Jail in October 2023 after being arrested on a drug warrant supported by the false positive test, Montengudo said in a lawsuit filed against two state troopers.
Montengudo, a York resident, is bringing false imprisonment, false arrest, and malicious prosecution claims against troopers Philip Pronick and David Long who tested the substance…