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Brothers arrested and held for ’33 long, miserable days’ for crime they didn’t commit

Two brother from Illinois spent 33 days in a Florida jail after they say police wrongly arrested them. What was supposed to be a couple days of fun celebrating one of their birthdays turned into a month-long nightmare.

“My whole life, I’ve been trying to just stay out of trouble – like nothing at all involving police – and then this happens,” Carl McNickles III, 20, said.

It wasn’t long after Shyquawn McNickles and Carl McNickles III arrived in Miami Beach with their father Carl McNickles to celebrate Shyquawn’s 18th birthday that the brothers found themselves in trouble. Read the full story here ▶