Posted on 12/19/2014 2:57:58 PM PST by Ken H
A Richmond police officer who took 4 pounds of marijuana home instead of filing it in the department's evidence locker will not be charged with a crime, according to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's office.
Prosecutors said members of the Richmond Police Department learned in September that Officer Joe Avila had a large amount of marijuana at his house. At the request of the Police Department, the district attorney's office began investigating and searched Avila's home, where they found 4 pounds of marijuana.
Prosecutors said Avila had responded to a call at a delivery service company in November 2013 for a package containing marijuana. Rather than booking the marijuana in the department's evidence locker, he took it home and used it to train a department police dog, according to the district attorney's office.
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And what about the other 400lbs?
And what about the other 400lbs?
No, it was the best, there is a little more to the story.
When I parked on his street and got out of my car, I immediately started wishing that I had parked blocks away.
When I went into his house he and two other guys were just totally depressed and exhausted, and he asked me if I had spotted any surveillance outside, I told him, not for sure, but that my spider senses were tingling, and he told me that they thought that they were under total surveillance and that they were doomed and would be raided any minute, so that if I wanted to, I could take as much away as I could haul in my car.
I declined the generous offer, and never found out if they were just having a paranoid streak from an abundance of partying, or if they were correct.
“Training his dog to roll joints’ I would buy a black velvet painting with that image. I know just the friend to give it to.
That’s the question: Was he assigned to the K-9 Division?
visiting eh.... were you a customer or something
I was visiting.
I know a guy that found a cave full in Baja. Musta been abandoned by smugglers. He said it was past being potent but made for a good beach bonfire.
Even if he was, there’s no reason not to go through the proper methods for training the dog. You don’t just take evidence (CASE EVIDENCE) and use it to train. They have little drug parcels or scented items specifically for training. That are known where they are, who checked them out, etc.
There’s no legal reason to do this. He’s a cop, he knows.
Exactly. So ask the chief “What makes you believe he was training a dog? Does he even own a dog or did he shoot it?”
Well so much for even pretending anymore...
I used to have a knack for finding everything in my teens, once I went right into a warehouse that was off loading trucks of the stuff, just from some sort of instinct.
I used to know the door in a black part of Houston, that I could knock on to get the bar owner to walk over to his bar at three in the morning to get me a few bottles of wine after hours, or where the after hours black bars were, I knew where the whorehouses were downtown, I seemed to know where everything was in that city, back in the day.
Katrina refugees would probably mug you in a minute, today.
The investigation veritably went up in smoke.
Houston used to be much rougher than today.
Racially?
I wonder why having ANY quantity of a dried out plant is a crime?
Why???? (how could we be so STUPID)
There are people in this world that would kill each and every one of us, but we lock up people for smoking something? What the hell.....
Houston has the lowest murder rate today, that it has ever had in it’s entire history.
When the citizen population exterminates these extra legal bastards, the law will start being what it was intended to be.
Gotta be the guns.
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