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Cop Arrests Man, Forced Him to Leave Family Pet on the Side of the Freeway to Die
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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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To: Valpal1
The man is still out his towing fee, his bail, and the time spent in jail. The cop should be fired, but he/she will end up being promoted.

The lesson I would have learned from it is to stay the hell out of Houston.

61 posted on 07/29/2014 2:06:22 PM PDT by sport
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To: rfreedom4u

I have put my pills in a zip lock bag if I am going to stay over at someone’s house before, they are my damned pills for my stomach condition dammit! Then I don;t have to mess with the container I can just toss the bag when I am done with them, am I breaking the law?

Hell we are all criminals of the police state...


62 posted on 07/29/2014 2:07:22 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Usagi_yo
"... Wherein it states they found PCP ..."

I don't care if they found a dismembered corpse in the trunk amidst a pile of kilo bricks of cocaine -- leaving the dog to wander into interstate traffic could have caused one or more traffic fatalities from someone swerving to miss the dog.

Why any agency would allow a demonstrable idiot with such a breathtaking lack of common sense to wander around with a badge and a gun and deal with emotional folks (99% of LEO calls) is absolutely, mind-numbingly, impossible to comprehend.

63 posted on 07/29/2014 2:07:59 PM PDT by jaydee770
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To: chessplayer

I wonder why PETAs not on the this? They’re up your ass on everything else animal related.


64 posted on 07/29/2014 2:10:38 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: sport

I’m wondering if the driver consented to the search thinking it was no big deal because he’d done nothing wrong.

NEVER consent to searches.

I also wonder if the real purpose of this pretext search was to obtain an expensive SUV for forfeiture. I would like to know how robust the HPD’s forfeiture account is.


65 posted on 07/29/2014 2:10:45 PM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: AppyPappy

““prescription drugs belonging to the passenger were found””

“””I call BS”””

Yes. Sounds strange.

Probably was marijuana.


66 posted on 07/29/2014 2:11:20 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Kartographer

They are dog haters!
We have an elderly Chihuahua that we love. We’ve had her for over 10 years. We don’t know exactly how old she was when we got her.
We got her from an elderly woman that said the dog had belonged to her son, but he could not take properly care of her. He was a cop...................


67 posted on 07/29/2014 2:13:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: GraceG

Funny.

Little old lady here and my little-old-lady pill boxes are amber.

Handy little things.

.


68 posted on 07/29/2014 2:13:33 PM PDT by Mears
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To: NorthMountain

“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.


69 posted on 07/29/2014 2:16:06 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: GraceG

I think those are made in Mexico by the Zeta cartel. /s


70 posted on 07/29/2014 2:19:30 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Usagi_yo

“Wherein it states they found PCP.”

Don’t confuse people with facts or rationality

Hate is what is important.


71 posted on 07/29/2014 2:20:37 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: chessplayer

If you want changes, the cops have to fear you. Unless a thousand people are willing to act near violently, there is no reason why they will change.


72 posted on 07/29/2014 2:21:33 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: GraceG

“Some facts are missing, here”

Yes. Drugs were PCP, not a prescription drug.

Nothing said the charges were dropped on the passenger with the drugs.


73 posted on 07/29/2014 2:23:38 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: varyouga

A buddy indirectly works for ASP. He goes to gun and tactical stores to see what stock they need. Most people in that biz are former law enforcement so when he goes to these places it is not uncommon for cops who hang out to assume he’s ex pd. The things he tells me about these guys would turn your stomach. A common story is cops gleefully telling him they need a new baton because they beat a citizen so badly the old one broke. This may be a small sample size but until the “good” cops get rid of the bad ones they are all bad cops.


74 posted on 07/29/2014 2:24:31 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: GraceG

Hi Grace,

You always make things up out of thin air like this?


75 posted on 07/29/2014 2:24:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: cloudmountain

It was not on the highway proper but on the feeder road.


76 posted on 07/29/2014 2:25:18 PM PDT by lastchance (People)
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To: jaydee770

“I don’t care if they found a dismembered corpse in the trunk amidst a pile of kilo bricks of cocaine — leaving the dog to wander into interstate traffic could have caused one or more traffic fatalities from someone swerving to miss the dog.”

Yes. Exactly.

There is a strange leftist psychology at work here where it is comforting to people,on these threads to think cops are totally corrupt and never ever do anything that is not purposeful abuse of fully innocent people.

Dog should not have been left in this way (assuming it’s true) no matter what the circumstances.


77 posted on 07/29/2014 2:31:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: rfreedom4u

Your personal property, your business.

We’re talking about the cops here. They work for us. They need to remember that.


78 posted on 07/29/2014 2:32:45 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: chessplayer

To harm an elderly dog for no reason is worthy of a WHOLE LOT of whupass.


79 posted on 07/29/2014 2:34:24 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: chessplayer

We are looking at how WE will be treated in the future.


80 posted on 07/29/2014 2:36:02 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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