Case Name: Jose Antonio MENDES DA COSTA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sergeant MARCUCILLI, Mount Vernon Police Department, Officer Johnny Camacho, Mount Vernon Police Department, Detective Michael Martins, Eastchester Police Department, Officer Jesus Garcia, Mount Vernon Police Department, Private Investigator Michael V. Lentini, Mount Vernon Law Department, Pedro Coelho, Cecilia Rodrigues, Hina Sherwani, Mount Vernon Law Department, Fernando Marques, Moacir Castro, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-01-10
Citations: 675 F. App'x 15
Docket Number: 16-587
Parties: Jose Antonio MENDES DA COSTA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sergeant MARCUCILLI, Mount Vernon Police Department, Officer Johnny Camacho, Mount Vernon Police Department, Detective Michael Martins, Eastchester Police Department, Officer Jesus Garcia, Mount Vernon Police Department, Private Investigator Michael V. Lentini, Mount Vernon Law Department, Pedro Coelho, Cecilia Rodrigues, Hina Sherwani, Mount Vernon Law Department, Fernando Marques, Moacir Castro, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS, ROBERT D. SACK, SUSAN L. CARNEY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 675
Pages: 15–17

Head Matter:
Jose Antonio MENDES DA COSTA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sergeant MARCUCILLI, Mount Vernon Police Department, Officer Johnny Camacho, Mount Vernon Police Department, Detective Michael Martins, Eastchester Police Department, Officer Jesus Garcia, Mount Vernon Police Department, Private Investigator Michael V. Lentini, Mount Vernon Law Department, Pedro Coelho, Cecilia Rodrigues, Hina Sherwani, Mount Vernon Law Department, Fernando Marques, Moacir Castro, Defendants-Appellees.
16-587
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
January 10, 2017
FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT: Jose Antonio Mendes Da Costa, pro se, Mount Vernon, NY.
FOR SERGEANT MARCUCILLI, JOHNNY CAMACHO, JESUS GARCIA, MICHAEL LENTINI AND HINA SHERWANI: Tichina La’Toya Johnson, Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, NY.
FOR MICHAEL MARTINS: No appearance.
FOR FERNANDO MARQUES, MOA-CIR, CASTRO, AND PEDRO COEHLO: Cliffith Bennette, Bedford Comers, NY.
FOR CECILIA RODRIGUES: Cecilia Rodrigues, pro se, Mount Vernon, NY.
PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS, ROBERT D. SACK, SUSAN L. CARNEY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Appellant Jose Mendes Da Costa, pro se, sued for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He appeals the sua sponte dismissal of his amended complaint for failure to follow Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8. We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history of the case, and the issues on appeal.
We review de novo the sua sponte dismissal of a complaint. McEachin v. McGuinnis, 357 F.3d 197, 200 (2d Cir. 2004). Pro se submissions are reviewed with "special solicitude," and "must be construed liberally and interpreted to raise the strongest arguments that they suggest." Triestman v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, 470 F.3d 471, 474-75 (2d Cir. 2006) (internal quotation marks, citation, and emphasis omitted).
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8 requires that a pleading "contain . a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief." Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2). Dismissal for failure to follow Rule 8 "is usually reserved for those cases in which the complaint is so confused, ambiguous, vague, or otherwise unintelligible that its true substance, if any, is well disguised." Salahuddin v. Cuomo, 861 F.2d 40, 42 (2d Cir. 1988). A complaint that is overly detailed but comprehensible does not merit dismissal with prejudice. Id. at 43.
The amended complaint, nearly 50 pages long, with hundreds of pages of exhibits, is convoluted and repetitive. While it contains some factual allegations concerning Mendes Da Costa's various arrests, it is virtually impossible to link the various defendants to Mendes Da Costa's alleged injuries. Moreover, Mendes Da Costa discusses non-defendants and other events without explaining how they are involved with the alleged conspiracy. The district court properly dismissed the amended complaint as frivolous and running afoul of Rule 8. See Salahuddin, 861 F.2d at 42; Prezzi v. Schelter, 469 F.2d 691, 692 (2d Cir. 1972) (per curiam) (final dismissal appropriate for complaint that was 'a "lab-yrinthian prolixity").
We have considered all of Mendes Da Costa's arguments and find them to be without merit. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.