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.
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these cops are inhuman. i’d have killed them if it was my pet.
if they belong to the passenger there’s no law broken.
you have to assume now all cops are just sadistic thugs with badges.
many people buy other types of pill containers to hold what they have to take every day. they aren’t illegal to own. also if this is such a danger to do they better start putting big warning on original bottles to not put them in other containers, i would guess most people are not warned about this and don’t know you can lose your dog over it.
I had a Macomb County MI Sheriff Deputy knock on my door. She found a stray and someone thought it belonged to my neighbor who was not home. We sent 45 minutes trying to ascertain if it was their dog. It wasn’t so she then took the dog to the pound.
have you noticed the overwhelming number of leo/cop shows on tv? i mean there are a ton of them on nowadays. several ncis’s, several law and orders, flashpoint, rookie blue, the closer, blue bloods, criminal minds, and then all the others in reruns or syndication.
effing police state on our damn tvs, and cops believe they can act like the fake crap in those shows.
and an obviously old and seeing-impaired dog at that. i know what cataracts are and i kno what they do to vision.
Why didn’t the cop punch the dog in the face repeatedly for stepping into traffic?
Thank you.
“I don’t care if they found tons of PCP and both men were serial killers- nothing justifies the LEO leaving the dog on the side of the road. Nothing.”
That’s right.
There was no reason for the leftist cop hater brigade to make the thread aboutbthe cops simply harassing innocent people.
You simply made up that it was prescription drugs being carried in the day to day plastic dispensers that so many of our seniors use.
There was zero indication that was the case.
You made it up.
The reference to the arrest of the passenger and the drug actually being PCP was in a link to a Houston news source posted two times in the thread prior to your false claim.
No, according the the article, the cop found prescription drugs and did what cops do best. ASSUME the worst. He assumed illegal use of drugs without a prescription. He probably made his assumption on nothing but his feelings.
Cops have long since learned not to fear the consequences of a mistake. He will never pay the price, and he cares nothing for the price others pay for his mistakes.
Note that the charges were dropped. Presumably because they were able to produce the prescription for the medication.
“I posit that anyone who agrees to a vehicle search in these circumstances because “I haven’t broken any laws” and “I’ve got nothing to hide” is no US citizen at all.
Tell Larry Law to get a warrant.
Tell Larry Law that you will wait for the K-9 patrol.”
Larry law will claim to have smelled something. You can’t prove he is lying, even though he is often wrong. Larry law will use a trick pony, a dog trained to signal on command. Larry Law will harass the crap out of you for refusing. Larry Law will invent any excuse to ignore the Constitution.
““prescription drugs belonging to the passenger were found.”
I think if they are not in the original drugstore bottle with the intact label, you can get into trouble. So if you have your daily meds in one of those fliptop things with the date on them you could be in violation of some law.”
It isn’t uncommon for people to split a prescription or other medication. It just makes sense. One, you might keep most at home. But if it is critical, you’d keep some in your car or such. Also splitting critical medicine is a good idea in case your supply gets damaged or lost somehow.
I do that with my allergy medicine. Over the counter stuff. I keep most at home, since my issues are rare. But I keep some in a bottle in my car, just in case I get hit at work.
This is just common sense. But like most cops, this one assumed the worst, with likely no evidence at all.
I’m pretty sure you confiscating anything is illegal. On your property, you have only the right to trespass. No where were you empowered to play cop.
Now, good chance you were right about illegal use of medicine. What if you were wrong? Just doing what cops do and assuming the worst? And then something went wrong?
Don’t assume powers you don’t have. You don’t like the person, send them packing. Nothing else.
Christopher Dorner acted violently.
The stormtroopers flipped out, and nearly killed three innocent people...
I have never been a cop hater. When LEOs do things like this they usually skate for it. That sends a message that this type of behavior is okay in the LEO community. If it is as I believe just a few bad apples then the LEO community needs to clean house and not stand behind these idiots.
It's Texas. My cousin was driving two months after a massive surgery with her two children. (Ages two and seven) She was pulled over for a traffic violation. She had a prescription vicodin in her purse (which she had a prescription for) just in case she needed it. They searched, found the pill and arrested her on the spot. We were all scrambling to get the kids and she spent the night in jail.
Texas is terrible about the War on Drugs. Remember, this is the state where the women were strip searched on the side of the highway. After traffic infractions (that's where they get a ton of money) their main concern is drugs. Protecting and serving? Not so much.
An "airhead" in Houston, and angry ankle-biting trolls on this thread.
The cops and their fanboys are on a roll...
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