Posted on 10/16/2017 7:15:22 PM PDT by sparklite2
Man arrested after cops mistook doughnut glaze for meth gets $37,500 from Orlando
TThe City of Orlando paid $37,500 to a man to settle a lawsuit after police officers arrested him for what they thought was meth but was actually tiny flakes of glaze from a Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Daniel Rushing sued the city after a field test incorrectly showed he had drugs and he was arrested and taken to jail.
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I’ve eaten a lot of Krispy Kreme doughnuts. To be fair, they ARE kinda addicting.....
Very addicting.
Geez...you’d think cops of all people would have a bloodhound-like scent of what a doughnut smells like.
Leni
This is simply BAD police work. I don’t understand how something this ridiculous and wrong can happen. Can you imagine how you would feel if it were you and your Krispie Kreme donuts?
I’m glad the guy sued and and got some money.
“Geez...you’d think cops of all people would have a bloodhound-like scent of what a doughnut smells like.”
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Even worse - makes you wonder what they’ve really been dunking in their coffee over the years.
“Happy he got a nice settlement to make him hole again.”
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Let’s try to avoid making a round of puns.
Well, he did get the dough.
“The officer who made the arrest, Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins, an eight-year department veteran, had staked out the 7-Eleven because of complaints about drug activity, she wrote in her report.
She pulled over Rushing because he failed to come to a full stop before pulling out of the convenience store parking lot and because he was driving 42 mph in a 30 mph zone, according to her report.
Daniel Rushing buys a Krispy Kreme doughnut every other week. (July 27, 2016) (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda / Orlando Sentinel)
When Rushing opened his wallet, she saw that he had a concealed weapons permit, she wrote. He told her that he had a gun, and she asked him to step out of his car, a small Chevy.
That’s when she spotted “a rock like substance on the floor board where his feet were,” she wrote.
“I recognized through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic,” she wrote.
She asked for permission to search his vehicle, the report says, and Rushing agreed.
“I didn’t have anything to hide,” he said. “I’ll never let anyone search my car again.”
Riggs-Hopkins and other officers spotted three other pieces of the suspicious substance in his car, according to the report.
“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.’”
His arrest report confirms that he tried to tell them.
“Rushing stated that the substance is sugar from a Krispie Kreme Donut that he ate,” Riggs-Hopkins wrote.”
He deserved more than 37K
Now he can buy more Krispy Kreme. With a receipt, you can enter it online for a free dozen when you buy a dozen. Or it used to be that way.
They closed down the one nearest me (about 20 miles).
I’m thinking it was the Russians, in collusion with Wikileaks, using Macedonian hackers. I know, I know, I know. It sounds crazy....
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This is simply BAD police work.
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I think the real problem was the false positive field test.
“Your eyes look glazed. I’ll have to take you, I mean, your donuts in.”
Orlando could have used a good drug-sniffing K9. A well-trained Belgian Malanois wouldn’t have made such a stupid mistake.
I had some dingbat broad pull me over many years ago. I missed the entrance to a burger place because the only entrance is further away from the place itself (another idiotic shopping center). so I pulled into a gas station and turned around.
She was a real Colombo. Then again, maybe not. Fortunately I had a witness in the car with me. After about 10 minutes of stupid talk and her checking the registration, uh duh, there was nothing I did wrong. What a dingbat.
She needed to go back to watching more T.J. Hooker.
Hmmm - convenience store about 4 nights ago - there were at least 4 maybe 5 cop cars surrounding a pickup at the pumps.
Yeah, they had the dog out. It’s not too bad of an area so I pulled out, hit the McD’s next door for a couple cheap burgers and was on my way. They had this thing all boxed in.
Don't be cruller to me....I sinker swim with my buns...er, puns.
Leni
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