Posted on 10/29/2005, 10:34:07 PM by Brian Mosely
Returning from our honeymoon in Mexico, my new husband Billy and I got off the plane in Nashville and walked towards customs. I was a little worried about a few bottles of habanero hot sauce I had bought for my dad.
We showed our driver's license and birth certificates and were then asked the normal questions regarding our trip. A police woman approached me and asked me to step into another room. Confused, I followed her into a room already occupied by more police officers.
That is when the nightmare began. They began interrogating me. "Ms. Green, how tall are you? What is your date of birth? Your Social Security number?"
Going through my purse, the female officer sarcastically commented that I had a lot of prescriptions and I agreed, "I have a lot of problems."
"Ms. Green, we have two warrants for your arrest out of Ohio. We have no choice but to hold you for the Ohio authorities."
It hit me like a ton of bricks.
(Excerpt) Read more at t-g.com ...
Is the relative in prison who caused this? I doubt it. Interesting story.
We need professional police forces in this country. I've had enough "cop" attitude along with government "attitude". There is no need for it.
I am glad your colleague has a forum to tell her story. I'd like to be able to send her an email of support, if possible.
Thanks for the post.
The relative served her time for all this five years ago. For some reason, the warrents were still on the books.
Blatantly ignoring the reasonably discernible medical needs of those under arrest should be a serious felony in all cases, regardless of the nature of the charges against the accused. If the arrestee should die as a result of a failure in this regard, the penalty should be death. The power to arrest morally requires taking full and incontestable responsibility for the arrested person's well being, if the presumption of innocence is to have any meaning. There can be no just power without commensurate responsibility in its exercise.
She needs to work to get that off the books before she ends up in jail having to go through the same thing again!
There oughtta be a way that anyone who has suffered an identity theft can get a court document vouching for information about the person who stole the identity.
As for the culprit, the thief is ultimately to blame and ought to be sueable (is that a word?) if something like this happens.
Were her rights read to her, was she formely arrested?
I'll have to ask her.
Let me guess, someone in Springfield stole her ID?
All joking aside, how horrible. I hope the situations clears up quickly for your friend.
Metro Nashville already is in trouble for ignoring the medical needs of inmates. One has died and two other diabetic inmates say they have been hospitalized because they did not receive the correct amount of insulin.
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/05/03/67109705.shtml
Ditto
If this story is true in it's account, she should have an excellent chance winning a false imprisonment/arrest lawsuit...and that's not even the end of it. If any of those medications were supposed to be taken within the time frame she was in carcerated...well I won't go any further, tell her to get intouch with a good lawyer.
Perhaps in New England, but not in the civilized world.
She does seem to be somewhat nieve for a reporter. She was complaining about the lawyer's fee. I would have thought it would have cost at least $1000 up front. And it sounds like she never worked the police beat.
2. Buy a paper shredder for your mail and ALL old documents (they are $ 16 at WalMart)
3. Copy every single thing in your wallet. If it is stolen, call AT ONCE and cancel everything
4. Report ID theft
If you cannot be bothered to do these simple steps, you deserve to have your ID stolen.
She didn't deserve being thrown in jail for the actions of someone else. Thrown in jail because someone didn't file paperwork correctly five years ago in Ohio.
I believe she will prevail in civil litigation, but it takes years to settle.
: )
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