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The State has been or­dered to pay al­most $200,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a 56-year-old busi­ness­man from Freeport for wrong­ful ar­rest, false im­pris­on­ment and ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion.

Al­though the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al ac­cept­ed li­a­bil­i­ty in the case a year ago, High Court Judge West­min James on­ly as­sessed the com­pen­sa­tion for busi­ness­man and emer­gency med­ical tech­ni­cian Dar­ryl Nan­ton late last week.

Nan­ton’s case stemmed from an in­ci­dent on April 24, 2018.