Posted on 07/29/2014 1:13:45 PM PDT by chessplayer
On July 13, Josie Garcia’s husband was pulled over by Houston PD for failure to use a turn signal.
The routine traffic stop lead to a search and prescription drugs belonging to the passenger were found. Both men were subsequently arrested and the SUV was impounded. Charges against her husband were dropped days later.
Unfortunately, Garcia’s 14 year old chihuahua, Guero, was along for the ride.
As the men were being taken into custody and the SUV towed, Guero was removed from the vehicle and left on the side of Highway 59.
Garcia’s husband plead with the officer to let him call someone to come get the dog or for the officer to call animal control, who’s shelter was only 2 blocks away.
The officer refused, claiming the dog would be fine.
For the next 3 days Garcia put up missing posters and searched for her beloved pet. Eventually, she received a call to let her know where he was.
Guero had been found, dead, on the side of the highway not far from where the men were pulled over. The elderly chihuahua was nearly blind from cataracts and had been hit by oncoming traffic.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefreethoughtproject.com ...
[ “Some facts are missing, here”
Yes. Drugs were PCP, not a prescription drug.
Nothing said the charges were dropped on the passenger with the drugs. ]
Citation needed for PCP on the Passenger, what link did you get this information because the word PCP doesn’t exist in the article, the article specifically says “PRESCRIPTION”
Here is the article snippet:
The routine traffic stop lead to a search and prescription drugs belonging to the passenger were found. Both men were subsequently arrested and the SUV was impounded. Charges against her husband were dropped days later.
So don’t bitch and whine at me for missing information in the article. Send an Angry E-mail to the news site instead.
“Phencyclidine is the chemical name for PCP.”
And if PCP was actually the prescription drug, it was STILL a prescription drug, like it or not. Certain opiates are prescription drugs as well. If you were driving your uncle who has back issues and is on Vicodin around town and get pulled over and the police arrest YOU because he put his Vicodin in a “pill a day” dispenser or a vitamin bottle you would be pissed off too.
Maybe respond to me should have been like this: I have sent an angry E-mail to the editor of the website where the news article was published for not publishing correct information or publishing misleading information.
[ Hi Grace,
You always make things up out of thin air like this? ]
Don’t be a jerkwad troll and accuse me of making shit up out of thin air. Post a freeking quote you have issue with. (Like I just did by citing YOUR quotes), otherwise you are just being a dishonest fool and if so, go back to Daily KOS or DUMmmie or whatever hole you dug yourself out of and you big jerk.
[ There are other prescription drugs that will field test positive as other illegal drugs, usually because they have a chemical similarity to what the kit is testing for.
Just because the cops say it was PCP doesn’t mean it was. ]
True, plus the fact that a LOT of prescription optiates also trigger tests for REAL opiates.
Also heaven forbid if you have too much sudafed in your glove box certain places have laws that make it possible for the police to charge you with making meth.
Exactly what I was thinking. Not believing this story.
And what proof was there that the barking rat was even in the vehicle in the first place?
Oh the word of the wife and her hauled off to jail husband.... Yep that’s proof enough I guess isn’t it?
And if you don’t think that there are people out there who scheme up ways to save their skin or scam taxpayers then there is a bridge in Brooklyn that you can buy for cheap.
[ I bet the barking rat was already roadkill somewhere else and the wife fabricated the story to try to 1.) get the husband out of trouble, and 2.) get lots of taxpayer’s $$$$$$$ from some settlement or other.
You bet what?
Your wild speculation, not a hint of was found anywhere in the story?
Tell me Mr. trooper, are you suggesting this was all planned out later and the elderly chihuahua who was nearly blind from cataracts wasn’t hit in the same area by traffic and days later Mr. Garcia and his wife went back to the scene, days later, and planted the dead dog, after beating it with hammers to make it look like it was hit by a car?
?? ]
I would demand the dash cam footage... if it still exists...
Funny how the only cop dash-cam footage we ever see ON TV SHOWS are the ones where the cops are competent and the perps are the foolish methhead redneck types....
You do realize that only sociopaths think that way.
What doesn’t add up is HPD saying it will take up to six months to investigate.
That’s just BS obfuscation hoping the public furor will die out so they can carry on as usual.
“The officer found a controlled substance (identified in court records as phencyclidine) on the vehicle’s passenger.”
Quoted from:
Dog’s Owners Still Want to Know Why Officer Allegedly Left Their Dog to Die
By Craig Malisow Tue., Jul. 29 2014 at 6:00 AM
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2014/07/guero_josie_garcia_hpd.php
phencyclidine — PCP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine
Okay now?
[ And what proof was there that the barking rat was even in the vehicle in the first place?
Oh the word of the wife and her hauled off to jail husband.... Yep that’s proof enough I guess isn’t it?
And if you don’t think that there are people out there who scheme up ways to save their skin or scam taxpayers then there is a bridge in Brooklyn that you can buy for cheap. ]
This is WHY the Cops Dashcam footage is a good thing for the cops NOT to lose. And to make for damned sure they are not backed up on the same brand of Hard Drives the IRS uses for E-mails....
I am all for putting cameras on cops by the way.
I don’t disagree with you.
Just the big leap from prescription meds to arrested and held for a day or so was a bit suspicious looking.
Trust but verify as my hero once said.
[ “The officer found a controlled substance (identified in court records as phencyclidine) on the vehicle’s passenger.”
Quoted from:
Dog’s Owners Still Want to Know Why Officer Allegedly Left Their Dog to Die
By Craig Malisow Tue., Jul. 29 2014 at 6:00 AM
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2014/07/guero_josie_garcia_hpd.php
phencyclidine — PCP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine
Okay now? ]
“PCP was first synthesized in 1926,[27] and was developed by Parke-Davis under the tradename named Sernyl in the 1950s as an anesthetic but because of its long half-life and adverse side effects, such as hallucinations, mania, delirium, and disorientation, it was removed from the market in 1965 and limited to veterinary use”
Did the Dog have a valid Prescription?
Hell they probably claimed a freaking dead armadillo as their pet for all we know.
It is THEIR CLAIM that the barking rat was even in the vehicle in the first place.
I am sad to live in a time and place where police brutality has become so commonplace that any horror story such as this is perfectly credible, whether the facts are clear or not. I no longer respect cops as I once did; they act like Nazis now.
You are assuming that I don’t care about the dog. You are wrong.
So you care about the truth? It was identified as PCP in court records. PCP is not a usable pharmaceutical.
“PCP is a Schedule II substance in the United States and its ACSCN is 7471.[31] Its manufacturing quota for 2014 was 19 grams.”
Which is just over 2/3 of an ounce.
Somewhere else??
So the dog had been dead before all this, and they kept the dead dog, until they could find a way to use it for big $ settlement?
Tell me Mr. trooper, are you suggesting this was all planned out later and the elderly chihuahua who was nearly blind from cataracts wasn't hit in the same area by traffic and days later Mr. Garcia and his wife went back to the scene, days later, and planted the dead dog, after beating it with hammers to make it look like it was hit by a car?
And what proof was there that the barking rat was even in the vehicle in the first place?
Lets pretend were in court. Stop evading the questions mr. trooper.
[ You are assuming that I don’t care about the dog. You are wrong.
So you care about the truth? It was identified as PCP in court records. PCP is not a usable pharmaceutical.
“PCP is a Schedule II substance in the United States and its ACSCN is 7471.[31] Its manufacturing quota for 2014 was 19 grams.”
Which is just over 2/3 of an ounce. ]
Then don’t bitch at me, bitch at the site with the article, the site at the article SAYS PRESCRIPTION DRUG.
Tell Larry Law that you will wait for the K-9 patrol.
Tell Larry Law that you will only open your vehicle when thay have properly executed warrant and...by-the-way...while we wait...I’m calling my lawyer (look up at the nearest highway billboard-—that is your lawyer!)
Before you're done saying that Larry Law will be initiating street justice and an attitude adjustment by means of taser, bean bag, baton, pepper spray, and choke hold.
“You do realize that only sociopaths think that way.”
Who are you calling a “sociopath”?
And if you’re trying to paint me as some sociopath, then you’ve got another thing commin because I can cite numerous posts in this thread, and hundreds of others elsewhere pointing out true sociopathic tendancies where the cop haters foam at the mouth even before the facts are in.
“What doesn’t add up is HPD saying it will take up to six months to investigate.”
And? That’s nothing unusual because everything will be checked. Hell the lab report for the drugs found on scene will take at least that long in some cases. Then there is IA, and probably SPCA, and other agencies who will conduct their own invesigations too.
The local police chief here was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, and she turned around and filed an EEOC complaint that’s going to take at least six months to run it’s course.
“That’s just BS obfuscation hoping the public furor will die out so they can carry on as usual.”
Uh yeah because all cops are guilty of everything and the six months is just a BS smoke screen.
Then don’t direct sarcastic remarks at me like:
Quote: “Did the Dog have a valid Prescription?”
[ I am sad to live in a time and place where police brutality has become so commonplace that any horror story such as this is perfectly credible, whether the facts are clear or not. I no longer respect cops as I once did; they act like Nazis now. ]
That is truly the sad part of it all, as the number of laws and regulations increase it will only get worse, far worse...
Officer Friendly (and there are still a lot of them out there) is becoming rarer and rarer, and we are seeing more “Officer JackBoots”.
I blame a lot of the whole mentality that “Government Knows Best” this grows the totalitarian state that the gubermit can do no wrong and since power corrupts....
The troll can’t think clearly with his mouth full.
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