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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
I wonder if she was living in her car?
“While she was waiting for the results to come back, Huff was also ordered as part of her court arraignment to seek drug counseling.”
How can you be arraigned, much less ordered by the court to do anything, before there is any evidence against you?
A spoon with something on it that is “being tested” is not evidence. A police officer’s unfounded suspicion is not evidence.
This lady has a nice lawsuit payout coming, I think.
We asked for this with our support for the disastrously failed War on Drugs.
I bet the authorities will treat each subsequent event of not reporting to counseling as a separate offense independent of the arrest for tomato sauce so if they lose the primary case (if there is any), they won’t be found culpable for the month in jail.
Great sleuthing there LEO - and since they acted in good faith, good luck suing.
Ahhhh!
That would be cause for arrest.
The crime of being poor!
Really?
How could he? There was no pot in your car, right?
Therefore, he could not possibly have smelled pot.
Officer Krupke didn't smell pot.
Officer Krupke LIED to you.
It's that simple.
Dear Officer Krupke: KRUP YOU!
LOL, love it!
More people have to start doing this to shift the LEO mindset back to "protect and serve" from "dominate and abuse". My sons are in their 20's now, but when they were teenagers I drilled it into their heads, don't cooperate. Say yes sir, no sir and do not consent to any searches.
LEOs have a tough job, but over the past 10 years it seems that they are not getting quality folks to do the job. I know my views on them have changed drastically over the past 10 years owing to 4 or 5 different benign instances with them.
I think they have become like all the other govt employees; arrogant, overpaid, and unaccountable.
No, silly. It would explain why she was eating in her car, and why she hadn’t washed her hair recently.
We asked for this when we accepted the New Deal "substantial effects" doctrine of the Commerce Clause.
Welcome to Amerika.
It was surely a willful mistake. The cop wanted to make a bust.
“If it was a “routine” traffic stop, why was the car searched?”
The spoon may have been “in plain sight”. I mean, why would you hide your Spaghetti-Os spoon?
Book her Dan-O!
Unofficially, she now has a record. Every time a cop runs her tag number it will come up as an arrest and is likely to trigger another incident. It will also come up when a larger local employer does a background check. It will never be removed.
Yup.
Sorry, Mr. Franklin... we couldn't keep it.
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