Posted on 11/03/2012 11:40:35 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
A landlord and his wife were still reeling Thursday from spending two days in the Clayton County Jail this week after reporting to police that they had found bags of methamphetamine in their rental property.
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Keeley, of Lithonia, said he, his wife and their 9-year-old son had just arrived at the home around 9 a.m. Sunday when they noticed the back door open, a window broken and the home vandalized. When they went into a bathroom, they noticed holes in the wall and the vanity mirror removed.
Keeley said he looked closer and noticed eight bags in the wall, which Clayton police narcotics officers later identified as meth.
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He then immediately called the ICE agent he’d spoken to earlier. “He said, ‘I’m on my way and call 911,’” Keeley recalled Thursday. After calling 911, Keeley said he and his wife briefly left the residence.
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He said the Clayton officers began intensely interrogating him and his wife and questioning him about calls he’d made that morning, many of which Keeley said he’d made trying to reach the ICE agent.
“’Who is this person you called? Who is this person you called?” Keeley said the officers demanded to know until they “snatched my phone.”
Keeley said one agent told him, “OK, come on, guy. Tell the truth. We know no one broke into your house. You did it yourself.” Keeley said he couldn’t tell whether he was also being accused of having the drugs there.
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The entire experience has left Keeley disillusioned.
“I feel that we were violated because we put our trust in you [police] to protect us and you turned it against us,” Keeley told Channel 2, adding he will be “forever reluctant to pick up the phone and dial the police again.”
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Out-of-state tenants left a bag of dope at my place. I tossed it.
Thanks! Believe me, though, I’m not the first one to think of it.
If the war on drugs were stopped, incidents such as this would be history.
sad but true
lol.
because this meth would be distributed in classrooms
Maybe under Obamacare.
You are an absolute and TOTAL idiot! I can't believe that you are allowed to stink up this message board with your fanatic tripe. Isn't there a whole in the ground somewhere that you haven't been kicked out of?
Here's some advise back at you: Go play in traffic. You are worthless to society.
BTW Prohibition was repealed many years ago and single malt scotch is still not being distributed to kindergarteners.
Sound advice.
Words for everyone to remember:
ANYTHING you say to the police can and will be used against you, inside a court or out.
ANYTHING. At any time. For any reason.
In any court of law, when you’re giving testimony in conflict with that being given by a police officer, guess who the court believes? It ain’t you, unless you have physical evidence to back you up.
Guess who has the taxpayer’s purse to pay for their lawyers? Never mind the DA, who is another taxpayer-funded goon, looking to advance their career at taxpayer expense. I’m talking about the lawyers who represent cops when they’re called to account: Funded by their union(s), which are enriched by taxpayer monies negotiated as part of their pay packages. Unless you’re work $25 mil and up, you don’t have the money to employ that much legal talent.
I’ve got some news for you. He’s not the only one who holds such opinions. I’m of the same opinion, and for sound reasons of personal experience and observation.
Want to know who else doesn’t like the cops? Returning combat veterans, who look at the cops playing at being SF ninjas... and laugh with derision.
American law enforcement used to be able to count on the support of the conservative political cohort in the US. No longer. They brought this situation down upon their own heads.
The local cops feel left out of the loop and decide they want an arrest out of the deal. This will cost the landlord money up front, but he needs to worry about his house getting seized by the locals. That is what they are after. With a competent lawyer he should get to keep the house, plus get two of the highest earning days of his life for getting thrown in jail.
I couldn't agree with you more. Cops don't prevent crimes, cops investigate crimes. And when the money trail gets too close to them, they commit crimes.
Spot on NVDave.
And this needs to be on the thread, and submarinerswife’s should watch it.
Don’t Talk to Cops
http://youtu.be/i8z7NC5sgik
Calling the Cops:
Damned if you do...Damned if you don’t!
You are an absolute and TOTAL idiot!
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You just haven’t had enough experience with these goons..
Many LEOs are bullies with badges who are on their own power trip. Try to steer clear of them, by all means.
Easier to put it on him than fill out all the paperwork for the real suspect who they’ll never try to find.
My home was broken into and I got there just as the cops were going in to clear the house. I felt the need to warn them there were guns inside just in case the person was still there.
They started asking me how many guns I had and focusing on me.
IBEW, IAW, UAW...??
IBEW, IAW, UAW, SEIU...??
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