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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: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday July 30 2016, @04:03AM
I honestly would not be surprised if it turned out they contained some kind of, legal, meth related compound that triggered the positive on the field drug test.
And given how I've seen children, and adults come to think of it, act after having a Krispy Kreme it also would not surprise me if it really did have some meth in it.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Wednesday August 03 2016, @08:58AM
I can just see some directors in the Krispy Kreme factories rushing to shred documents and perform a purge of the factory screaming "The secret is out! Destroy EVERYTHING"