In one wrongful-arrest suit against Valentin, Melvin Johnson and three other men say that in 2011 they were busted on bogus drug charges in Longwood, the Bronx — then driven around "under sweatbox-like conditions for several hours" until they were transported to the 41st Precinct stationhouse, less than two blocks away. Charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance against the men were dropped. Their civil case came to a close last August, with the four splitting an $83,000 settlement.