Posted on 09/30/2014 6:16:25 AM PDT by smokingfrog
A Georgia woman was mistakenly jailed for one month after cops confused her SpaghettiOs for meth.
Ashley Gabrielle Huff was first detained on July 2 after officers in Gainesville found a spoon with a dried substance baked onto it inside her car during a routine traffic stop.
The 23-year-old, from Commerce, claimed it was residue from the canned pasta that she liked to eat in the vehicle.
Police, however, believed it to be methamphetamine.
Huff, who had no criminal history, was sent to Hall County Jail for two days so cops could conduct crime lab tests on the mysterious texture.
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How in sam hell do you mistake spaghettios for meth. Geeezzzz
She should sue the pants off the tyrants.
You gotta get up priiiiiiiitty early in the morning......
And they say it’s a free country.
I wonder if she has any redress for false arrest.
I live in GA...it happens
The mug shot explains why they thought it was meth.
But, just in case, get a gun.
If it was a "routine" traffic stop, why was the car searched? Or did the cops just figure she was poor and stupid, and that counts as an automatic waiver of Fourth Amendment rights?
One of the better recent examples of why the notion of "qualified immunity" should be severely curtailed.
If there were justice in this world, the cops and judge would get to spend a month in jail in addition to paying huge settlements.
Are cops just that hard up to find “SOMETHING”....anything?
Okay. This is just weird.
Instant result meth test kits are available. They aren’t all that accurate, but could certainly be used onsite for screening out spaghetti sauce.
Aren’t even expensive. $20 for two, and presumably less in volume.
What are they doing searching her car during a "routine traffic stop"?
Based on this story, this police department is corrupt and massively incompetent at every level.
She happens to have a dumb expression on her face, but she’s clean and well groomed— what made you think the picture shows she’s a meth addict? The freckles?
I smell a big, fat, juicy financial settlement.
That would be my take— they thought she was a meth addict and had to invent some reason to hold her.
W T F!!!
Licking spaghetti-o residue from the inside of her car...W T F!
I’m a guy and therefore by the mere virtue of me being a guy I am a firm believer and supporter of “the 5 second rule,” but this chick takes disgusting to an entirely different level — I have never licked anything from the inside of a car, ever...W T F is wrong with this person.
Maybe they were holding her in protective custody so she wouldn’t lick the sidewalk for gum...
I totally disagree, I think the face she is making is one of “are you kidding me, this is the stupidest thing ever!” Before they even completed the testing she was mandated to attend drug rehab classes, and when she could not make them all, the jailed her again, for a month!
I hate lawsuits, but I hope she sues their pants off. A routine traffic stop, forced into drug rehab, for a suspicious spoon. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty. WOW!
Well, here’s hoping she strips them of some of their funding.
You made me laugh. :-) I love my Georgia neighbors but I have a funny story. We drove just over the GA/TN line to buy lottery tickets prior to TN having the lottery. I decided to pump gas while my husband was in the store getting the tickets. While I was pumping gas my Jack Russell stepped on the truck’s door locks and locked us out. Naturally, the keys were in the ignition since I was supposed to be with the truck. I didn’t bring my keys since he was driving. Nothing I did would entice him to step on it again to unlock the door.
I went inside the store and told my husband we had a slight problem and what it was. Three guys jumped up and ran to their trucks. Each one came up with a slimjim and proceeded to see which one could break into the truck first. By the time my husband finished buying his tickets they had the doors unlocked. I tried to pay them but none would take a dime. I now hide a key on the truck. :-) I just love Southern good-ole-boys!
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