The Board of Estimates is set to pay $30,000 today to a Towson man who alleged personal injury, false imprisonment and civil rights violations stemming from a police arrest made nearly six year ago.

Driving with his teenage son, Kenyon Williams said he was approached by plainsclothes Baltimore Police Officer Owen M. Ray Jr. after he had stopped at a West Baltimore traffic light on May 8, 2009.

“Ray attempted to have the vehicle pull over for identification purposes because he was assisting other officers in reference to a report of an armed person in the vicinity and had observed what he believed to be suspicious activity in plaintiff’s car,” according to the settlement sheet submitted to the spending board.

Williams instead drove to his destination, about five blocks away, where he was arrested by a group of officers and taken to Central Booking. He was “eventually released” after all charges were dropped.

Williams’ lawsuit against Ray was filed in Baltimore Circuit Court in early 2012, sent to U.S. District Court and remanded back to Circuit Court, where the city agreed to settle the allegations last October 28 in return for the suit being dropped.