“Generally, an inculpatory statement from an eyewitness suffices to establish probable cause and defeat claims for malicious prosecution, false arrest, and false imprisonment.” Reid v. New York City Police Dep't, 19-CV-1220, 2019 WL 1271645, at *2 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 18, 2019) (citing Bermudez v. City of New York, 790 F.3d 368, 377 (2d Cir. 2015)).
“[I]t is well-established that a law enforcement official has probable cause to arrest if he received his information from some person, normally the putative victim or eyewitness.” Martinez v. Simonetti, 202 F.3d 625, 634 (2d Cir. 2000) (quotation marks and citation omitted); see Reid v. New York City Police Dep't, No. 19-cv-1220, 2019 WL 1271645, at * 2, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44317, at *4 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 18, 2019) (“Generally, an inculpatory statement from an eyewitness suffices to establish probable cause and defeat claims for malicious prosecution.”); Daughtry v. New York, No. 12-cv-2655, 2015 WL 2454115, at *3, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68627, at * 8 (E.D.N.Y. Feb. 23, 2015) (“A positive photo identification is normally sufficient to establish probable cause to arrest.”) (citations omitted). Plaintiff argues, without evidentiary support, that a third party sent Scales this Facebook picture, and that the third party “told [Scales] that [Plaintiff] did it.”