Wrong time & ‘face’

Unfair-jailing suit

A Harlem man told police they had the wrong guy — even showing them his time card from his stock job at Macy’s for the perfect alibi — but cops arrested him anyway because he matched a robbery victim’s vague description of a black man in a hoodie, a lawsuit charges.

Now, David Owens (inset), 23, who later had the robbery charges against him dropped, is suing the city and 11 NYPD officers over his wrongful arrest — and subsequent six weeks spent locked up on Rikers Island.

Owens says in his Manhattan federal court lawsuit that he clocked out from his Herald Square job at 3 a.m. on Oct. 23, 2012, and got on an uptown 1 train headed home.

But about half an hour later, at the 50th Street station, cops got on and arrested him for stealing a woman’s backpack on an A/Cline station an hour earlier, his suit states.

“Mr. Owens tried to explain that there must be some misunderstanding, and that he had just clocked out from his job as a stock clerk at Macy’s,” the suit states. “Mr. Owens also showed [the cops] his timecard receipt, told them the floor he worked on, and the name and phone number of his supervisor.”

The suit says Owens fit the very general description given by the victim of a young black man wearing a dark hoodie. After Owens was arrested, the cops brought a woman who was crying hysterically to look at him.

“As Mr. Owens stood surrounded by officers against the wall, the woman frantically alleged that he was the person who ‘did it,’ ” the suit states.

“I felt like the police didn’t care about the truth,” Owens said. “They just wanted to get a conviction to build themselves up. It makes me not trust the police and that’s an awful thing.”

Owens’ bail was set at $3,500, leaving him stuck on Rikers until Manhattan prosecutors dropped the case, the suit states.

A city Law Department spokesman said it would review the allegations.