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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No, I just hang them on the clothes line hoping something comes up so I can later use it them in schemes to trap the cops for the big dollar settlements.
It never occurred to me to freeze them before taking them back to the scene...I guess you'd have to thaw them out first to cover all the bases.
It could have been a prescription drug that merely field tested positive as pcp.
I find it interesting that neither the husband’s or the passenger’s names have been used in any of the several articles I’ve read about this incident.
The media seems to be unwilling to print them. I find that very curious.
Dog or no, tell the Cop you don’t authorize him to search your car but you’ll peacefully sit or stand where you direct me to if you choose to do so. If asked “Why don’t you want us to search your car” simply respond: “If I don’t stand up for my rights who will? You certainly won’t”.
I’ve done this twice in my life with very gratifying results. But I would hesitate to do this in a dark and secluded place.
The best one was, once I didn’t pull over right away because there was no light and it was a large expansive causeway, so I continued on for 1/2 mile until I saw a street light and off the causeway. When the cop asked me why I didn’t pull over right away I said “I wanted to pull over in a safe and secure spot”. The officer replied “you don’t have to worry about us [with a bit of smugness]”. I replied “I wasn’t”. His demeanor afterwords was priceless.
The article I found said it was identified as PCP in court documents.
What was the arresting officers name?
Methinks thou protest too much.
A troll, in the classical Usenet sense, attempts to divert attention away from the original subject of a thread.
I.E...obsessing on the pharmacological vice or virtue of what a person may or may not have had on his person.
*I* have stayed consistently on topic.
An innocent dog was left to die on the side of a highway by an uncaring thug.
Perhaps if you removed your tongue from the jackboot for a few seconds, you might comprehend this simple fact, too.
I will not lower myself to your level of petulant ad hominem, but suffice to say, it would appear that your ultimate fear on this thread, is that someone, somehow, might out-troll *you*.
Kinda makes you really wonder about Walt Disney, now...doesn’t it?
;]
[I must confess, the absolute bat-crap inanity of portions of this thread has afforded me a good chuckle, if nothing else]
The copsuckers are out in force today. Makes me wonder...
It’s the end of the month.
Gotta make that copsucking cyber-quota.
;D
With all the bad cop stories the pro LE folks seem to be getting desperate. I used to be very pro LE. But not so much nowadays.
The widespread distrust and cracks in the foundation seem to just get bigger by the day.
There hasn’t been sufficient time for accurate lab testing to have been done, so logically the only way they would identify the alleged prescription drugs was with a field test kit.
So it’s possible that a legally prescribed medication was misidentified by the field test and written up as pcp in the arrest warrants and charging documents.
D’OH!
I see much good done by *local* state cops and sheriffs.
Most of them are “good ol’ boys” who grew up here and aren’t terrified by the vagaries of life, such as ‘porch dogs’.
The “city cops” are the ones you have to watch out for.
Except for one really wonderful city K9 cop with whom spent a very pleasant hour of conversation, talking about our dogs.
Maybe an expert cop snorted some and vouched for it.
I’m thinking of setting the keyboard on this Alienware laptop to strobe red/white/blue, just for the occasion.
:D
The city guys and the fed guys...In fact all big gov departments seem to have their own military combat units now. I think the Dept of Education has um... It’s also interesting to see the distrust between some of these agencies growing...Like most everything involving government at all levels nowadays, it’s chaos, corruption, on and on. It’s a spectacle few are failing to notice.
Doesn’t post office have a bazillion rounds of ammo?
What could possibly go wrong, there?
Yes, the most common, yet inaccurate field test ever.
Sometimes, “confiscated things” go missing at the station.
I blame the drug dogs.
Yep...On and on...
Funny, I used to go into a PO occasionally and there are like 14 cameras facing the counter... Like a prison reception station for new inmates. Those behind the counter have these crazy DMV style pitbull attitudes like the customers are violating their space.
I stopped going...
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