Irvine parents planted drugs on school volunteer, police say (VIDEO,parents both attorneys)

An Irvine couple who became upset with a parent volunteer at their son’s elementary school have been arrested and charged with conspiring to frame her by planting drugs in her car and calling police.

Kent and Jill Easter, both 38 and both attorneys, are charged with three felonies.

Orange County prosecutors say the story began in 2010 when Jill Easter was angered by the unnamed school volunteer, whom she accused of not properly supervising their son. In retaliation, the Easters allegedly hatched a plot to have the volunteer arrested.

Kent Easter, authorities say, drove to the volunteer’s home shortly after midnight on Feb. 16, 2011, and left a bag of prescription pain medication and marijuana in plain sight in the volunteer’s unlocked car.

He then allegedly drove to a Newport Beach hotel, where he called police from a public phone and falsely reported seeing the volunteer -- whom he identified by name -- hiding drugs in her car.

Police who responded said the woman denied knowing anything about the drugs and consented to a search of her car and house.

Yet another shining example of how dangerous drug possession laws are to liberty. These laws allow someone to be charged with a felony simply for having a tiny object on or near them. No evidence is required that they actually use or sell it, only the possession. It is truly guilty until proven innocent. The victim in this story had to allow her car and home to be searched and was lucky the police found enough evidence to “prove her innocent”.

It worked out OK in this case but how many innocent people have gone to jail by simply having a tiny object planted on them? I have known several over the years and many had their lives ruined. One had drugs planted during a land dispute and his property was taken.

With some drugs, a package the size of a silver dollar can give someone 5-10+ years in prison. Even a flake of crack rock is a felony in some jurisdictions. It doesn’t even have to be a package full of the drug. With ‘cutting’ laws, it could be mostly baby powder.

Not only can people harm each other, but law enforcement can do the same to target anyone at will.

Amen!

If you cede to Government the power to regulate anything you put into your body, you cede to it the power to regulate everything you consume.

People are just beginning to get that now.

When they came for the pot smokers, Joe Freeper did not speak out; he was not a pot smoker.

When they came for the tobacco smokers, Joe Freeper did not speak out; he was not a tobacco smoker.

When they came for the 32-ounce soda drinkers ... Joe Freeper finally started connecting the dots.

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