Posted on 07/28/2016 12:10:43 PM PDT by Gamecock
An Orlando man was charged with possession of crystal meth with a gun, but a state crime lab proved him right — it was actually glaze from Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
When the man stopped by the 7-Eleven without buying anything and left with an employee in his car, cops were suspicious.
Orlando police were staking out the convenience store, 938 W. Colonial Dr., after neighbors complained of drug activity, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Police saw the man in the silver Chevy leave without stopping at the stop sign and speed off going 42 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone, according to the report. They pulled him over.
The officer saw his concealed weapon license, asked to hold onto his gun for safety and had the driver get out of the car. That’s when the veteran officer saw four flakes of a white substance on the floor.
"I recognized through my 11 years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic," the officer wrote in her report.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...
Perhaps with some effort, the government records could be expunged. It is (for reasons like this) also illegal to ask about arrests on job applications; only convictions.
Is “certification” even needed? It would be a good subject of investigation to find out if there is other hocus pocus going on.
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They probably wanted his car... there is ALWAYS a way to fake a test and get the desired result.
“Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/common-roadside-drug-test-routinely-produces-false-positives
I think smoking Meth is more healthy for you than eating Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
Perhaps with some effort, the government records could be expunged. It is (for reasons like this) also illegal to ask about arrests on job applications; only convictions.
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Maybe HR departments should be informed of that... I’ve filled out 5 apps this week and that question is sometimes marked as “voluntary” to answer but it is ALWAYS asked.
If those criteria are not met, it is almost certain that the tainted evidence will be tossed.
Any approach to that sounds illegal but who is going to prosecute or sue, a vastly overburdened regulatory agency?
This is one of these “Process is the punishment” cases.
The officer saw his concealed weapon license, asked to hold onto his gun for safety and had the driver get out of the car. That’s when the veteran officer saw four flakes of a white substance on the floor.I wonder how many other people have been falsely arrested based upon that roadside "test" they use."I recognized through my 11 years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic," the officer wrote in her report.
The driver let her search the car, and she found more chunks, which two roadside tests showed were crystal methamphetamine.
Daniel Rushing was arrested, charged with possession with a weapon, strip-searched and jailed in December.
The 64-year-old Orlando man told officers he’d never done drugs in his life, and the crumbs were from his Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Weeks later, a state crime lab proved him right.
“I kept telling them, 'That's … glaze from a doughnut. … They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth," Rushing told the Sentinel.
Is it 11 years of training and experience or one year of training and experience 11 times and she still hasn't passed the training part, yet?
Scary...don't run stop signs and don't speed.
And never eat doughnuts in the car!
I hope Rushing gives them all the bum’s rush.
LOL!
You know where to find USC Campus Police, in uniform with squad cars, at 0800 every day?
The Chick-Fil-A on Harden Street. I kid you not. You would think they could eat breakfast BEFORE work.
Did he have a TRUMP/PENCE or MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN bumper sticker on his back bumper?
Just damn...
If ANYONE should recognize Krispy Kreme donut remnants....
The jokes just write themselves!
Actually this sort of policing is inspired by a Rent Seeking government at whatever level this "enforcement" is.
Eliminate the possibility of property transference to the governmental agency, and all of a sudden the coppers will become highly competent and non offensive citizens will be ignored.
Hmm, maybe more like a “process is the lottery ticket” case then. More than meets the eye, it isn’t just a case of fuzz that is ignorant or even has a chip on the shoulder.
Cops lie. You can't take anything they accuse someone of at face value, unless there is hard proof.
Once long ago, I was stopped while driving slowly through an alley looking for parking while going around a block. Cops pulled me over, accused me of having drugs (which I did not have). Pulled me out of the car, searched my vehicle coming up empty handed. Pissed at not finding anything, they accused me of speeding through the alley. 15mph in a 10mph zone. I was doing about 5mph. I got the ticket dismissed. Have had other similar experiences. One time enroute to a meeting with top police brass, where the rookie cops sheepishly backed off red-faced once I told them who I was meeting.
I have run into good cops and bad cops. There are plenty of bad ones that ruin it for the good ones.
“Making Cops Laugh / Krispy Kreme Doughnuts” - Gabriel Iglesias - (From Hot & Fluffy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a77Dw3tNv8o
Sloppiness/incompetence is tolerated and ignored because there is a good possibility that the agency will receive revenue and/or valuable property with little risk of restitution being required, and in that case the taxpayers will take the biggest part of the hit.
Generally, seized property owners must properly initiate recovery legal proceeding within 10 days of the seizure, or forfeit it all. Most are never aware and all have only about seven days to actually get a lawyer, and get it done. The employment, pension and personal wealth of the coppers and their superiors is never at risk.
You, sir, wih teh Internets for the day!
“I recognized through my 11 years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic,”
Wow, chemists should put in some time on the force, it would really free up a lot of resources because they wouldn’t need to run spectrographic analyses anymore, they could just eyeball something and know its chemical composition!
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