What is the test for having probable cause to arrest?

Having resolved that the district court did not err in considering the documentary evidence before it, we have no trouble concluding that the district court properly granted the defendants' motion. Probable cause to arrest "is a complete defense to an action for false arrest, whether that action is brought under state law or under 1983." Amore v. Novarro, 624 F.3d 522, 536 (2d Cir. 2010) (internal quotation marks omitted). "Probable cause exists if at the time of the arrest the facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge and of which he had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the

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