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Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth

posted by martyb on Friday July 29 2016, @06:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the sometimes-stereotypes-are-inaccurate dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

AlterNet reports:

A 64-year-old man in Orlando was handcuffed, arrested, strip searched, and spent hours in jail after officers mistook the glaze from his doughnut for crystal meth.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that, after pulling Daniel Rushing over for failure to stop and speeding, Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins noticed "a rock like substance" on the floorboard of the car. "I recognized through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic", she wrote in her report.

The officers asked if they could search Rushing's vehicle and he agreed. [...] [Rushing said] "They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth'."

[...] The officers conducted two roadside drug tests on the particles and both came back positive for an illegal substance. A state crime lab made further tests weeks later and cleared him. Rushing says he was locked up for about 10 hours before his release on $2,500 bond.

A cop who can't identify doughnut residue? What is the world coming to?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @07:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @07:45PM (#381697)

    The Orlando Sentinel reports that, after pulling Daniel Rushing over for failure to stop and speeding

    Wait, what? Not only was he apparently in a rush, he's actually Mr. Rushing?

    Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins noticed "a rock like substance" on the floorboard of the car.

    And the cop who fraudulently locked him up is actually Ms. Riggs?

    Who writes this "real life" crap? I want my money back.

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  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday July 29 2016, @08:19PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday July 29 2016, @08:19PM (#381707)

    There is a theory that people try to live up to their names *(subconsciously or otherwise). Historically, surnames matched your profession.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @08:40PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @08:40PM (#381716)

      OP here.

      There is a theory that people try to live up to their names *(subconsciously or otherwise).

      You're probably thinking of nominative determinism [scilogs.com]. Such a name is called an "aptronym". Wikipedia article on aptronyms [wikipedia.org] has a fascinating list of examples.

      It still feels like lazy writing, though!