Police: Guy breaking into car on Charles Street chased by alert citizens

Hmm... I don't see anything in the BPD report about the vigilantes holding the dude. Just says the police stopped him on Tremont.

The elements of the tort are:

* Intention to confine the other or a third person within boundaries fixed by the actor. Recklessness will suffice
* Total restraint: the claimant must have no reasonable way of escaping - Bird v Jones
* The person confined must be aware at the time of confinement of the state of that confinement or be harmed by it. - Parvi v. City of Kingston - N.Y. Ct. App. 1977 (41 N.Y.2d 553, 362 N.E.2d 960, 394 N.Y.S.2d 161)

Restatement (Second) of Torts §35. False Imprisonment

ALM GL ch. 263, ? 3 (2010)

3. Action for False Imprisonment Limited.

No action, except for use of excessive force, shall lie against any officer other than the arresting officer, by reason of the fact that, in good faith and in the performance of his duties, he participates in the arrest or imprisonment of any person believed to be guilty of a crime unless it can be shown that such other officer in the performance of his duties took an active part in the arrest or imprisonment as aforesaid, either by ordering or directing that said arrest or imprisonment take place or be made, or by actually initiating the making and carrying out of said arrest and imprisonment. No action, except for use of excessive force, shall lie against any bystander assisting an officer in making an arrest, at the request of the officer.