by the trial judge on the ground that Mrs. Mejia’s consent to search the Mejias’ office had not been given voluntarily. See People v. Mejia, Indict. No. N13203-93 (N.Y. Sup.Ct., Queens County Feb. 6, 1995) (transcript of Mapp hearing at 146-47). 24 .Accordingly, for brevity’s sake, plaintiffs’ state law claims for false arrest and false imprisonment will, henceforth, be referred to simply as "false arrest” claims. 25 . United States v. Valez, 796 F.2d 24 (2d Cir. 1986), is not, as S/A Tipton argues, to the contrary. In Valez, a police officer was searching for a participant in an observed drug transaction based on a detailed description of the suspect. The officer arrested Valez on the basis of his fitting the description and the fact tha 89 F.Supp.2d 543, 557 n. 21 (D.N.J.2000) (<HOLDING>); Ruppel v. Ramseyer, 33 F.Supp.2d 720, 728-29
holding that director of crisis center who was private individual and who acted under color of state law by conducting strip search of female detainees for contraband at request of police officer had qualified immunity from  1983 suit arising out of searches because she acted as agent of officer who also had qualified immunity holding that a defendant who was told several times he was not under arrest and who never asked to leave during an interview with investigators was not in custody holding that private citizen asked by police to act as sign language interpreter in course of the interrogation of deaf suspect was entitled to qualified immunity on ground that she was a private individual who was asked to participate in a single criminal investigation an undoubtedly essential governmental activity and also was acting under the supervision of the investigators who could not themselves perform the function holding that borough attorney who was acting in direct assistance of legislative activity was entitled to absolute immunity holding that attorney who was retained by city to assist in conducting official investigation into firefighters potential wrongdoing was entitled to qualified immunity in firefighters  1983 claim because official investigation of state employee was activity of the type entitled to qualified immunity