Belvedere resident sues Tiburon, police officers over alleged wrongful arrest, privacy violations
A Belvedere resident is suing the town of Tiburon and three police officers, saying officers arrested her without probable cause on a domestic-violence call in October 2025 and refused to let her dress before taking her to jail.
Veronika Van Den Top, who lived in Tiburon at the time of her arrest, filed the civil suit Sept. 22 in Marin County Superior Court and is seeking a jury trial. She alleges that police Sgt. Freddy Gutierrez and Officer James Harris violated her civil rights by arresting her without probable cause.
The Marin County District Attorney’s Office did not file a criminal complaint over the arrest, said Alfiya Nachtigall, an administrative secretary for the office.
In a separate family-court case, a Superior Court judge denied requests by Van Den Top and her husband for longer-term domestic-violence restraining orders against each other Feb. 27 after a contested hearing, court records show.
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