Defendant Officer Martinez's observations of plaintiff spray painting the gate of a church, the recovery of the same color spray paint from his person, and the existence of paint on plaintiff's hand established probable cause for the arrest, and thus provided defendants a complete defense to the claims of false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution (see De Lourdes Torres v Jones,
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