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Worse, the cops in Durham, NC, posed as a delivery service and delivered a package full of marijuana to a frat house. There was no one at the house by the name on the package, which had been refused once before. This time someone inside the house signed for it and put it to one side thinking the supposed recipient might have used the house for an address (as students sometimes do).

Five minutes later the SWAT squad crashed through the door, put everyone in handcuffs, strip-searched them, and did thousands of dollars of damage ‘searching’ the house, hoping to find some other kind of drug-related items which would justify their raid. They found nothing, and the package had not been opened.

Nevertheless, they still charged the signer with drug-trafficing. In the meantime, several pounds of the marijuana in the package went missing while in police custody. (?) (This is the same police force that recently investigated three students for another crime that never happened.) Eventually—after expensive legal fees—the charges were dismissed.

But the whole operation smacked of a set-up—for a crime which never happened.

This sort of thing could happen to anyone (the police “manufacture” probable cause to search your house). And if you can’t prove your innocence, you can be in for a long prosecution (if you can afford a defense lasting a year or more).

Boy are you confused! Lemme let in ya in on a little secret, new guy. Yeah...to me you're a new guy. At DU, they, uh, don't like cops. Kinda like a lot of folks on this thread, ya know. So...if you don't like cops, why don't you take your newbie a** over to DU, huh? You can comiserate with the rest of the acidheads and methheads about how THE MAN is keepin' you down.

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