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Richmond Police Officer Who Brought Home 4 Pounds of Marijuana Won't Be Charged (California)
NBC Bay Area ^ | December 18, 2014 | n/a

Posted on 12/19/2014 2:57:58 PM PST by Ken H

A Richmond police officer who took 4 pounds of marijuana home instead of filing it in the department's evidence locker will not be charged with a crime, according to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's office.

Prosecutors said members of the Richmond Police Department learned in September that Officer Joe Avila had a large amount of marijuana at his house. At the request of the Police Department, the district attorney's office began investigating and searched Avila's home, where they found 4 pounds of marijuana.

Prosecutors said Avila had responded to a call at a delivery service company in November 2013 for a package containing marijuana. Rather than booking the marijuana in the department's evidence locker, he took it home and used it to train a department police dog, according to the district attorney's office.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcbayarea.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; donutwatch; richmond
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To: Sasparilla

And what about the other 400lbs?


21 posted on 12/19/2014 3:21:02 PM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: Sasparilla

And what about the other 400lbs?


22 posted on 12/19/2014 3:21:02 PM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: al baby

No, it was the best, there is a little more to the story.

When I parked on his street and got out of my car, I immediately started wishing that I had parked blocks away.

When I went into his house he and two other guys were just totally depressed and exhausted, and he asked me if I had spotted any surveillance outside, I told him, not for sure, but that my spider senses were tingling, and he told me that they thought that they were under total surveillance and that they were doomed and would be raided any minute, so that if I wanted to, I could take as much away as I could haul in my car.

I declined the generous offer, and never found out if they were just having a paranoid streak from an abundance of partying, or if they were correct.


23 posted on 12/19/2014 3:22:24 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Squeako

“Training his dog to roll joints’ I would buy a black velvet painting with that image. I know just the friend to give it to.


24 posted on 12/19/2014 3:23:30 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Secret Agent Man

That’s the question: Was he assigned to the K-9 Division?


25 posted on 12/19/2014 3:24:38 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (My love affair with an abuser is over. Support a third party.)
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To: ansel12

visiting eh.... were you a customer or something


26 posted on 12/19/2014 3:24:40 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

I was visiting.


27 posted on 12/19/2014 3:26:32 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

I know a guy that found a cave full in Baja. Musta been abandoned by smugglers. He said it was past being potent but made for a good beach bonfire.


28 posted on 12/19/2014 3:30:14 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Even if he was, there’s no reason not to go through the proper methods for training the dog. You don’t just take evidence (CASE EVIDENCE) and use it to train. They have little drug parcels or scented items specifically for training. That are known where they are, who checked them out, etc.

There’s no legal reason to do this. He’s a cop, he knows.


29 posted on 12/19/2014 3:31:37 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Exactly. So ask the chief “What makes you believe he was training a dog? Does he even own a dog or did he shoot it?”


30 posted on 12/19/2014 3:33:03 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (My love affair with an abuser is over. Support a third party.)
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To: Ken H

Well so much for even pretending anymore...


31 posted on 12/19/2014 3:38:03 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: gundog

I used to have a knack for finding everything in my teens, once I went right into a warehouse that was off loading trucks of the stuff, just from some sort of instinct.

I used to know the door in a black part of Houston, that I could knock on to get the bar owner to walk over to his bar at three in the morning to get me a few bottles of wine after hours, or where the after hours black bars were, I knew where the whorehouses were downtown, I seemed to know where everything was in that city, back in the day.


32 posted on 12/19/2014 3:39:24 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Katrina refugees would probably mug you in a minute, today.


33 posted on 12/19/2014 3:42:42 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: LostInBayport

The investigation veritably went up in smoke.


34 posted on 12/19/2014 3:43:00 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: gundog

Houston used to be much rougher than today.


35 posted on 12/19/2014 3:45:18 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Racially?


36 posted on 12/19/2014 3:52:41 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Ken H

I wonder why having ANY quantity of a dried out plant is a crime?

Why???? (how could we be so STUPID)

There are people in this world that would kill each and every one of us, but we lock up people for smoking something? What the hell.....


37 posted on 12/19/2014 3:54:31 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: gundog

Houston has the lowest murder rate today, that it has ever had in it’s entire history.


38 posted on 12/19/2014 3:59:13 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Ken H

When the citizen population exterminates these extra legal bastards, the law will start being what it was intended to be.


39 posted on 12/19/2014 4:05:52 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: ansel12

Gotta be the guns.


40 posted on 12/19/2014 4:14:06 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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