Okay so I made a very stupid mistake of driving with shit on me but here's my story.. St. Patricks Day, about 9pm
I drive to drop my friend off at his house. His house is on a very busy highway street, so I dropped him off directly behind his house which is actually my towns DMV parking lot (DMV was closed it was about 9pm). I drop him off and pull away, an I see a car in the parking lot turn its lights on and follow behind me. Before I even get to the street, I see flashing lights and i get pulled over by an UNDERCOVER car with one uniformed officer an one officer not in uniform. They ask me why I'm coming out of the DMV when its closed and I told them that I was hanging out at my friends house for awhile and didn't want to pull in the driveway on the other side because it's usually full and its a busy street as they knew. Lying to them about what I was doing was a bad idea but I didn't want to explain that I drove into the DMV just to drop my friend off (looked like a drug deal), they were probably watching me the whole time. The cops most likely thought I was dropping off drugs to somebody.
They immediatly asked me if I had any marijuana in my car. I know they didn't smell it because the shit I had was closed in an airtight pill bottle inside of a brown paper bag. I said "No sir." confidently and they asked again, "are you positive?". And I said "Yes sir, I wouldn't keep anything in my car."
The brown paper bag was laying on the floor of my passenger seat kind of hidden and I had the uniformed officer at my door questioning me and the other officer at my passenger window shining a flashlight right in my face the whole time to see if I was high.. I couldn't see the officer when he had the big flashlight in my face, but I stared right into the light confidently because I knew what he was doing.
Than the un-uniformed officer at my passenger window with the flashlight asks "What's in that bag?". I freaked a bit because I knew I was probably fucked. I replied "Just food and stuff." And slowly I started empting the bag (BIG mistake, I should have just left it.). But I knew I had a cookie and a couple CD's at the top of the bag to keep it stealth so I stupidly pulled out the cookie and a couple cd's. I than accidentally pulled out my digital scale, which is broken and I didn't know was in the bag.
He said "well well well what''s that for? and dont bullshit me neither.." I didn't lie, I said "I have it for personal use to check if I got ripped off." Than as I was going to grab the brown bag, the un-uniformed officer snatched it out of my hand and said "Give me that" like I was trying to hide the rest of the contents.. He pulled out the pill bottle and said "I knew I smelled something".
I know I had a pill bottle in the bag with about 2grams of super-high quality marijuana but there was no chance he smelled it because it was super airtight and I could never smell it before. I also had another bag with about 2.5grams of beasters in it which I know he couldn't smell because the weed had absolutely NO smell at all and was all dried out.
They never emptied my brown paper bag in front of me or anything so I never knew exactly what they found. They just pulled me out of the car and cuffed me as soon as they saw the scale. My rights were definatly NEVER read to me. They kept trying to get me to say there was something else in my car, saying "why wouldnt you be lying now if you lied about the weed in the first place?"
I replied, "I'm going to college and can't get in trouble and that's why I lied, but there's honestly nothing else in my car." They then searched my pocekts and took all my money ($77) because I spent alot that day and didn't know how much I had. Than they found my 17 hydrocodone pills which I had just purchased and were in a baggie. I told them I was taking them because I was just getting over the flu (completely true, I take them once in awhile recreationally but not often and they were really helping my flu).
They were convinced I was lying and had more drugs in my car and I knew I didn't because they got everything so I signed a "Consent to search form". While sitting in the back of the undercover car cuffed, I asked "How long am I going to be in jail? I really have been sick and can't miss anymore classes at college." They asked if somebody would bail me out tonight for $250 and I replied "probably not."
The drug dog came, searched my car and all it found was a weed-grinder with about 0.1grams of keif in it in my center console. I honestly didn't know it was there, I thought it was in my brown paper bag which they already took illegally from me and never even showed me what they found in it.
In the end, he let me go and said he'd be nice enough to call me while I'm on spring break for school to turn myself in for processing. I just got the phone call, he said be at the station at 9am or there would be a warrant out for my arrest and $500 bail.
........This is my first time ever getting arrested so I don't really know what to do. I know I need a really good lawyer, should I have him ready for thursday? I'm pretty sure that's when i have court, he told me to be at the station at 9am.
...I plan on changing my story from what I originally said for my benefit since they NEVER told me my rights when I got busted and never said "Whatever you say can and will be held against you in a court of law." I told them everything was mine for personal use when I got busted, but in court I'm going to say I drive a lot of college kids around and didn't even know the bag was in my car, it was somebody elses. Shit, they never even revealed to me what I was getting arrested for. I still don't even know if I was arrested or not!!
This isn't the complete story because I tried to shorten it a bit. But these undercovers definatly weren't just in busting me like this and I'm going to take them to hell in court. I will be sure to bring up the point that he grabbed the brown paper bag with the weed in it without my consent (even though it was in plain view), and NEVER read me my rights, in court.
........................ Any advice?? Would be greatly appreciated
I drive to drop my friend off at his house. His house is on a very busy highway street, so I dropped him off directly behind his house which is actually my towns DMV parking lot (DMV was closed it was about 9pm). I drop him off and pull away, an I see a car in the parking lot turn its lights on and follow behind me. Before I even get to the street, I see flashing lights and i get pulled over by an UNDERCOVER car with one uniformed officer an one officer not in uniform. They ask me why I'm coming out of the DMV when its closed and I told them that I was hanging out at my friends house for awhile and didn't want to pull in the driveway on the other side because it's usually full and its a busy street as they knew. Lying to them about what I was doing was a bad idea but I didn't want to explain that I drove into the DMV just to drop my friend off (looked like a drug deal), they were probably watching me the whole time. The cops most likely thought I was dropping off drugs to somebody.
They immediatly asked me if I had any marijuana in my car. I know they didn't smell it because the shit I had was closed in an airtight pill bottle inside of a brown paper bag. I said "No sir." confidently and they asked again, "are you positive?". And I said "Yes sir, I wouldn't keep anything in my car."
The brown paper bag was laying on the floor of my passenger seat kind of hidden and I had the uniformed officer at my door questioning me and the other officer at my passenger window shining a flashlight right in my face the whole time to see if I was high.. I couldn't see the officer when he had the big flashlight in my face, but I stared right into the light confidently because I knew what he was doing.
Than the un-uniformed officer at my passenger window with the flashlight asks "What's in that bag?". I freaked a bit because I knew I was probably fucked. I replied "Just food and stuff." And slowly I started empting the bag (BIG mistake, I should have just left it.). But I knew I had a cookie and a couple CD's at the top of the bag to keep it stealth so I stupidly pulled out the cookie and a couple cd's. I than accidentally pulled out my digital scale, which is broken and I didn't know was in the bag.
He said "well well well what''s that for? and dont bullshit me neither.." I didn't lie, I said "I have it for personal use to check if I got ripped off." Than as I was going to grab the brown bag, the un-uniformed officer snatched it out of my hand and said "Give me that" like I was trying to hide the rest of the contents.. He pulled out the pill bottle and said "I knew I smelled something".
I know I had a pill bottle in the bag with about 2grams of super-high quality marijuana but there was no chance he smelled it because it was super airtight and I could never smell it before. I also had another bag with about 2.5grams of beasters in it which I know he couldn't smell because the weed had absolutely NO smell at all and was all dried out.
They never emptied my brown paper bag in front of me or anything so I never knew exactly what they found. They just pulled me out of the car and cuffed me as soon as they saw the scale. My rights were definatly NEVER read to me. They kept trying to get me to say there was something else in my car, saying "why wouldnt you be lying now if you lied about the weed in the first place?"
I replied, "I'm going to college and can't get in trouble and that's why I lied, but there's honestly nothing else in my car." They then searched my pocekts and took all my money ($77) because I spent alot that day and didn't know how much I had. Than they found my 17 hydrocodone pills which I had just purchased and were in a baggie. I told them I was taking them because I was just getting over the flu (completely true, I take them once in awhile recreationally but not often and they were really helping my flu).
They were convinced I was lying and had more drugs in my car and I knew I didn't because they got everything so I signed a "Consent to search form". While sitting in the back of the undercover car cuffed, I asked "How long am I going to be in jail? I really have been sick and can't miss anymore classes at college." They asked if somebody would bail me out tonight for $250 and I replied "probably not."
The drug dog came, searched my car and all it found was a weed-grinder with about 0.1grams of keif in it in my center console. I honestly didn't know it was there, I thought it was in my brown paper bag which they already took illegally from me and never even showed me what they found in it.
In the end, he let me go and said he'd be nice enough to call me while I'm on spring break for school to turn myself in for processing. I just got the phone call, he said be at the station at 9am or there would be a warrant out for my arrest and $500 bail.
........This is my first time ever getting arrested so I don't really know what to do. I know I need a really good lawyer, should I have him ready for thursday? I'm pretty sure that's when i have court, he told me to be at the station at 9am.
...I plan on changing my story from what I originally said for my benefit since they NEVER told me my rights when I got busted and never said "Whatever you say can and will be held against you in a court of law." I told them everything was mine for personal use when I got busted, but in court I'm going to say I drive a lot of college kids around and didn't even know the bag was in my car, it was somebody elses. Shit, they never even revealed to me what I was getting arrested for. I still don't even know if I was arrested or not!!
This isn't the complete story because I tried to shorten it a bit. But these undercovers definatly weren't just in busting me like this and I'm going to take them to hell in court. I will be sure to bring up the point that he grabbed the brown paper bag with the weed in it without my consent (even though it was in plain view), and NEVER read me my rights, in court.
........................ Any advice?? Would be greatly appreciated
