Dallas police officers Randolph Dillion and Jon Llewellyn were passing through an apartment complex on West Camp Wisdom Road at about 9 p.m. on December 9, 2011 when they spotted Melvin Williams from their squad car taking something -- drugs, they suspected -- from a man in a parked car. Williams was arrested after the officers found a bag of meth under the passenger seat and, in his apartment, more meth, scales, marijuana, and a loaded gun.

Or so the officers said. In a December hearing in a civil case over $3,712 seized during the arrest, District Judge Carl Ginsberg called Dillon and Llewellyn's testimony "largely perjurious" and ruled in Williams' favor after the manager of his apartment complex contradicted much of the officers' testimony, according to the Morning News.

That was only the beginning of their troubles.