Turns out it wasn't an AR-15. It was a kitten. But by then it was too late. If only the suspect had handled the situation differently.
Posted on 07/28/2016 5:45:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Florida man told the Orlando Sentinel the he was arrested and brought to jail after police in Orlando mistook a few flakes of donut glaze in his car for bits of crystal methamphetamine.
Daniel Rushing, 65, said in an interview with the newspaper that he had just dropped off a neighbor for chemotherapy when he was pulled over on Dec. 11, around 1 p.m. Earlier, he had eaten a Krispy Kreme donut, he said.
The officer spotted "a rock like substance on the floor board where his feet were," according to a police report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.
She and other officers debated whether the donut glaze was crack cocaine or meth, finally concluding it was the highly addictive crystalline stimulant that has ravaged communities across the country.
The police report noted that Rushing told police it was Krispy Kreme donut glaze, but he was arrested and held in jail for 10 hours on a charge of possession of methamphetamine with a firearm, according to the newspaper.
A state lab later concluded that the glaze was not an illegal drug, and three days later the charge was dropped.
*I* think the police *smelled* the donuts, stopped the car on any flimsy pretext, ATE all the donuts themselves, and arrested the guy to cover their tracks.
/tinfoil hat mode *off*>
You’d think police officers would recognize donut glaze pretty easily.
Maybe these guys prefer the powdered ones.
Lawyer up.
Turns out it wasn't an AR-15. It was a kitten. But by then it was too late. If only the suspect had handled the situation differently.
I have doubts about this. Patrol cars carry little vials to test substances found on a person or in a car. It’s been SOP for years.
I don’t know if you’ve ever eaten Krispy Kreme, but there has to be some kind of drug in it
Cops ARE out to get you. They don’t really want to shoot you though.
Sounds more sensible than we mistook donut's glaze for meth
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Good thing the guy was white, and not a dog.
(kidding)
I’m thinking key details of the arrest are not mentioned.
It’s not exactly easy for a cop standing outside the car to see a chunk of donut glaze when the driver’s legs and shoes block 90% of the view.
I’m thinking the gun issue came up first, then, that led to a routine car search and discovery of the donut glaze.
At any rate, since the charges were not dropped for 3 days, the driver would have needed a court appearance and would have needed to post a substantial bond before release after just 10 hours, but nothing like that is mentioned in the article.
More crap from CBS and the Orlando Sentinel masquerading as reporting. Seriously, CBS and the Orlando Sentinel???
Those people are ignorant morons. That is not a redundant phrase. Ignorant is a bonefide adjective in this case.
This is what happens when you train cops to see everyone not in uniform as the enemy. We have to get our police back from the stranglehold of the federal government.
The Poe-leece need additional glazed donut indoctrination. Each off going shift will report to the local Krispy Kreme for refresher training. All members of the force know its location.
Those doughnuts are addicting...
Those doughnuts are addicting...
Those field test kits aren’t worth crap. They was recently an article in the NYT about this. People are being railroaded into pleading guilty to crimes that they did not commit based on field tests that are often fudged and inconclusive and prosecutors that threaten defendants with extreme punishments if they don’t take the plea. Poor, ignorant and terrified defendants choose the lesser of two evils, go to jail for a few weeks, and wind up with a felony that dogs them for life. Our “justice system” has become a cruel mockery of the ideal most Americans assume exists.
Mosby is just an extreme example of the norm.
So, did the cops at least get to keep the car through civil forfeiture? < /almost sarcasm>
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