Posted on 07/31/2014 1:14:29 PM PDT by FBD
TALLAHASSEE (CN) - Florida sheriff's officers falsely arrested and imprisoned a woman with allergies for buying two boxes of Sudafed at a drug store, she claims in Federal Court.
Mickey Lynn Goodson claims she bought the two boxes of the over-the-counter drug because the pharmacist recommended it. She sued Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young and the two officers who arrested her, Rodney Moore and William Buckhalt.
Charges of possession of a controlled substance were eventually dropped, Goodson says in the July 18 complaint.
In July 2010, Goodson says, she went to a Winn-Dixie store to get Sudafed "because she has allergy flare-ups." Sudafed contains pseudoephedrine, which can be used as a precursor chemical in some recipes for methamphetamines.
"The pharmacist on duty suggested that plaintiff buy two boxes of Sudafed and she did," the complaint states.
"Almost immediately," defendant Officer Moore drove up in an unmarked police car, Goodson says. Moore blocked her and her husband's car, prevented them from leaving, and asked if she had just bought Sudafed... (snip)
Defendant Buckhalt arrived, with other deputies, and searched the Goodsons' car. They were taken to a sheriff's station, where Buckhalt asked if he could search their home. The Goodson said no, "unless there was a search warrant...
Plaintiff was arrested on her front porch after Buckhalt obtained a search warrant on false and misleading statements and evidence," the complaint states. "Later, when an Order Granting Motion to Suppress was entered suppressing all evidence received pursuant to the search warrant, the Judge stated that 'had the magistrate been aware of the omission [of critical evidence and facts in the documents signed by Buckhalt to obtain the search warrant] he would not have found sufficient probable cause for issuance of a warrant." (Brackets in complaint.) All charges against her were dropped...
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JBT Ping
How much meth can you make with 2 boxes of Sudafed anyway?
I could be wrong but I think Gadsden County is the only county in Florida with a majority Black population.
They don’t bother arresting the real criminals. Too dangerous. Crooks carry guns. Crooks have good lawyers. Crooks get away with crimes. Crooks are minorities, and evoke sympathy.
MUCH easier to arrest honest, law-abiding citizens. They don’t squawk. They don’t have guns. They don’t know how to fight a corrupt legal system. Gets the arrest numbers up. Good statistics mean regular raises.
Maybe it’s time to start calling them what they are:
Terrorists with Tin.
They do some crap like this to take the attention away from the fact that they aren’t going after the real druggies who have paid them off or scared them off.
catch-all excuse to arrest and harass without probable cause
So did the druggist call the cops? How did the cops know about the purchase?
I thought criticism of police was banned from being posted on Free Republic?
"Almost immediately," defendant Officer Moore drove up in an unmarked police car, Goodson says. Moore blocked her and her husband's car, prevented them from leaving, and asked if she had just bought Sudafed... (snip)
Almost immediately.
Even 911 calls don't get answered almost immediately.
Now how do you supposed this happened?
>>I thought criticism of police was banned from being posted on Free Republic?
Were you on an extended mission in Africa or a trip to Mars for the last couple years? Almost everyone here has finally stopped thinking that the government-paid police are the law-abiding citizens’ friend quite a while ago. There’s a few of those old-school law and order types left, but every dead dog and abused citizen converts a few more.
Looks like the Warrant was issued because they refused to allow a blanket
search, on the premise they were guilty of something or they would allow the
invasion of their home because they bought legal Drugs.
The next step would be the violation of Civil rights and suing the hell out of them.
Time to end the DemcoRat enacted WOD and replace it with Republican enacted freedom.
I’m in favor of the war on drugs, basically, but I think it should be more anti-drug media pressure that carries the effort. Here in Florida, both lower income whites and blacks are perma-stoned, with whites being particularly given to meth so they’re not only stoned but angry. And they’re both unemployable.
That said, I have strange allergy flare ups (probably mold) for which only pseudoephedrine works. I used to order it from an on-line pharmacy in Canada because they had the only product I liked (Allerest) which seemed to have a low dosage and did not make me feel weird. I had to send them all my passport information to get it!
Then I found I could get 4-hour tablets of a generic brand here...and I started doing that. Now you can get almost nothing and it’s ridiculous. I don’t know the actual limits because I have decided that it’s just easier to suffer than to go and be treated like a drug dealer at my local CVS.
I was in New Mexico with my sister (NM, famous for Breaking Bad) and she bought some allergy pills and then, right after buying them, discovered that they were 12-hour, which she doesn’t like. She wanted to exchange them for 4-hour tablets, because the headache and congestion are usually gone by then or they won’t go at all, but the pharmacy wouldn’t let her, and she had bought her limit for whatever period of time it was. So I bought the 4-hour pack, and I was surprised that there weren’t cops waiting outside the door for us.
A lot of this is done, I think, to discredit the anti-drug movement. There’s no reason to make it this cumbersome; people who want to make meth get their stuff somewhere, no matter what.
All the authorities need to do is see if somebody is buying 20 packs of allergy meds a day and go from there. But harassing normal purchasers of allergy meds is clearly meant to impinge on the middle class and make them oppose the “war on drugs” because they blame it for making it impossible for them to buy some minor medication that would make their headache go away.
The buying of decongestants has to be entered in the computer along with your driver’s license information.
The computer makes an immediate report of anyone buying over one box of decongestant.
There must be a priority alarm sent to the Sheriff for the location of the store.
Tin-Horn Terrorists.
This type of abuse won’t stop unless there is personal liability by the police officers. Otherwise, they will fight her with her own taxpayer dollars and, if she wins, the award will be made with taxpayer dollars.
This news is nothing to sneeze at.
This is the first I have heard of allergy meds being an ingredient in meth. I take both Zyrtec and Benadryl my husband takes Benadryl . I hope I don’t get arrested when I stock up next time.
Time to end the DemcoRat enacted WOD and replace it with Republican enacted freedom.
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Funniest statement of the day.
You cannot actually think the GOP wants to end the WoDs.
It was during the Bush administration that we had to start giving our ids to purchase anything with pseudophedrine (2006).
It’s easier for my minor child to pick up a prescription for oxycontin that it is for me to buy Claritin D.
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