USAF_2T2
January 7th, 2006, 22:13
I recently pulled a car over for speeding. Nothing major, and had full intentions of just writing a written warning. As I approached the car the driver gets REAL nervous. Not the usual nervous I get rom most folks.
I ask him for his license and registration and he is shaking like he is having a seizure. I ask him to step out of the car and I proceed to pat him down for weapons. (Not a frisk through his pockets, but rather just a pat down to feel for a gun, knife or rocket launcher :harhar: ) He is still extremely nervous and now my back up has arrived. I ask the passenger to step out and ask him if he has anything he shouldn't and he says no. I then pat him down and feel something in his front right pocket. I ask what it is and he tells me "rolling papers." I ask what he uses them for and here is what I got. "I use them to patch my cigarettes up if they break." I almost whizzed down my leg as I couldn't believe what he said. I politely shook his hand as that is normal for me when someone gives me an excuse I haven't heard.
Anyway, I have the drivers license and ask him for consent to search. He says he doesn't care. What I always ask is, "has anyone left anything in your car that you do not know about." Kinda like the airport folks that ask you if anyone packed your bag like you are a member of the Royal Family or something. Anywho he tells me that no one else besides his friend was in there and that he cleaned his car earlier in the day. I begin my search and find about 1/2 ounce of marijuana in the console. We then detain the subjects as neither of them take responsibility for the weed.
Take them both to the PD and process them for simple possession of Schedule 6 (marijuana). I again ask the driver if the marijuana was his and he said he didn't know it was there. Simple enough. I decide to cut the 2 a citation for simple possession, but since I took them to the PD their car was towed and they had to pay a $65 tow bill. On the tow sheet I wrote that the car needed to be picked up by the mother of the boy as it was in her name too. This is kinda like a teacher making a student take a note home to be signed and returned in a way.
I talked to the boys later and they were students at the Community College where I went to the Academy. Both really decent kids just being stupid. I didn't detect them being high at the time either.
Goes to court and the lawyer helping me out with my seperation approaches me and ask if we can plea the case. I am leery at first, but ask for one stipulation. That the boys submit to a random urinalisys at my choosing for up to one year at their expense, not to exceed 2 times in a month. The lawyer and the boys agree and the case is dropped unless they violate the guidelines set by the judge per my request.
So in a sense they were not charged criminally, but rather by me and what I felt was right. It isn't always like that, but am glad as it is a win-win deal for all involved. I get them to submit within 12 hours of request and they get it off their record.
I ask him for his license and registration and he is shaking like he is having a seizure. I ask him to step out of the car and I proceed to pat him down for weapons. (Not a frisk through his pockets, but rather just a pat down to feel for a gun, knife or rocket launcher :harhar: ) He is still extremely nervous and now my back up has arrived. I ask the passenger to step out and ask him if he has anything he shouldn't and he says no. I then pat him down and feel something in his front right pocket. I ask what it is and he tells me "rolling papers." I ask what he uses them for and here is what I got. "I use them to patch my cigarettes up if they break." I almost whizzed down my leg as I couldn't believe what he said. I politely shook his hand as that is normal for me when someone gives me an excuse I haven't heard.
Anyway, I have the drivers license and ask him for consent to search. He says he doesn't care. What I always ask is, "has anyone left anything in your car that you do not know about." Kinda like the airport folks that ask you if anyone packed your bag like you are a member of the Royal Family or something. Anywho he tells me that no one else besides his friend was in there and that he cleaned his car earlier in the day. I begin my search and find about 1/2 ounce of marijuana in the console. We then detain the subjects as neither of them take responsibility for the weed.
Take them both to the PD and process them for simple possession of Schedule 6 (marijuana). I again ask the driver if the marijuana was his and he said he didn't know it was there. Simple enough. I decide to cut the 2 a citation for simple possession, but since I took them to the PD their car was towed and they had to pay a $65 tow bill. On the tow sheet I wrote that the car needed to be picked up by the mother of the boy as it was in her name too. This is kinda like a teacher making a student take a note home to be signed and returned in a way.
I talked to the boys later and they were students at the Community College where I went to the Academy. Both really decent kids just being stupid. I didn't detect them being high at the time either.
Goes to court and the lawyer helping me out with my seperation approaches me and ask if we can plea the case. I am leery at first, but ask for one stipulation. That the boys submit to a random urinalisys at my choosing for up to one year at their expense, not to exceed 2 times in a month. The lawyer and the boys agree and the case is dropped unless they violate the guidelines set by the judge per my request.
So in a sense they were not charged criminally, but rather by me and what I felt was right. It isn't always like that, but am glad as it is a win-win deal for all involved. I get them to submit within 12 hours of request and they get it off their record.