'Crystal meth' flakes are not what they seem

[clippedgull]

What a doughnut!!

Daniel Rushing probably won’t be eating Krispy Kreme doughnuts in his car any more.

The 64-year-old was arrested on drug charges when Orlando police officers spotted four tiny flakes of glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine, The Orlando Sentinel reports.

Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins wrote in an arrest report that during a traffic stop on 11 December she noticed the flakes on the floorboard. Two roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance and Rushing was arrested. But a state crime laboratory test cleared him several weeks later.

“It was incredible,” Rushing said. “It feels scary when you haven’t done anything wrong and get arrested ... It’s just a terrible feeling.”

It started on a Friday afternoon when Rushing dropped off a neighbor at a hospital for a weekly chemotherapy session. Then, he drove to a convenience store to pick up a friend who needed a ride home.

Riggs-Hopkins said she was staking out the area for drug activity. Rushing told her he had a concealed weapons permit, according to an arrest report. She asked him to step out of his car and noticed a “rock like substance” on the floorboard.

“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.

Rushing agreed to a vehicle search. “I didn’t have anything to hide,” he said. “I’ll never let anyone search my car again.”

Riggs-Hopkins and other officers spotted three other pieces of the substance.

“I kept telling them, ‘That’s ... glaze from a doughnut,” Rushing said.

He was charged with possession of methamphetamine with a firearm and spent 10 hours in jail before being released on bond.

The Florida’s law enforcement department told the newspaper that an analyst in its Orlando crime lab did not try to identify what police found in the car, only to determine whether it was an illegal drug. They determined it was not and three days after Rushing’s arrest the state attorney’s office dropped the charges.

Rushing, who retired after 25 years as an Orlando parks department employee, told the newspaper he had hired a lawyer and plans to sue the city because he was arrested “for no reason at all”.

Orlando police said in a statement that the arrest was lawful.

 

[Gabbafella]

At least they didn't shoot him.
He obviously wasn't black.

 

[fat old seagull]

What a doughnut!!

Bloody Hell! Good job they didn't search my car....I'd have been nicked, for Supplying !

 

[studio150]

Drug raids on all Krispy Donut stores as clearly drug dens.
Only in America.

 

[alfredmizen]

At least they didn't shoot him.
He obviously wasn't black.

they shot more white people than black last year.

 

[pasty]

The most worrying thing about that story is

Two roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance and Rushing was arrested.

What kind of shit technology are they using there then?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

The most worrying thing about that story is



What kind of shit technology are they using there then?

Probably made by the same bloke that made those fake bomb detectors for Iraq.

 

[Durlston]

Who was the copper? PC Penhale from Doc Martin?

No apology at the end of the statement. I hope he takes legal action and wins a fair amount of money.

 

[daveinprague]

they shot more white people than black last year.

How many were lying on their backs with their hands up?

 

[Gazwag]

The most worrying thing about that story is



What kind of shit technology are they using there then?

The tongue test

 

[CheeseRolls]

Still don't understand why anyone would choose to eat Krispy Creme donuts. These things sit right at the top of a list of turd US gifts to the world. Even the greasiest of Asdas jam doughnuts are ten times better than these sugary lard balls and a fraction of the price. Why do these things even exist ?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Still don't understand why anyone would choose to eat Krispy Creme donuts. These things sit right at the top of a list of turd US gifts to the world. Even the greasiest of Asdas jam doughnuts are ten times better than these sugary lard balls and a fraction of the price. Why do these things even exist ?

Agreed, overrated, overpriced and over here. Disgusting things.

 

[daveinprague]

Still don't understand why anyone would choose to eat Krispy Creme donuts. These things sit right at the top of a list of turd US gifts to the world. Even the greasiest of Asdas jam doughnuts are ten times better than these sugary lard balls and a fraction of the price. Why do these things even exist ?

Central Euro doughnuts are crap....but we have Marks & Spencers, and their jam doughnuts for 6kc a pop are one of the cities bargains!

 

[Gabbafella]

Agreed, overrated, overpriced and over here. Disgusting things.

Americans or doughnuts?

 

[brightn'ove]

Maybe she got suspicious after he told her he was 'Rushing'?

 

[Taybha]

they shot more white people than black last year.

Every Cloud

 

[Triggaaar]

The most worrying thing about that story is



What kind of shit technology are they using there then?

I assumed he had taken some drugs, not just the doughnuts. The fact that the substance they found was doughnut icing isn't proof he hadn't also had drugs.

 

[daveinprague]

I assumed he had taken some drugs, not just the doughnuts. The fact that the substance they found was doughnut icing isn't proof he hadn't also had drugs.

After reading the papers report, I doubt it really.

 

[Triggaaar]

After reading the papers report, I doubt it really.

Are roadside drug tests that rubbish then? If they tested you for alcohol and it was positive, then you've had alcohol.

 

[daveinprague]

Are roadside drug tests that rubbish then? If they tested you for alcohol and it was positive, then you've had alcohol.

Guess in this case they were.
They didnt test him. They tested the substance on the car floor that turned out to be krispy kreme topping and not cocaine, as first thought, and or meth when tested at a lab.
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'In a statement to the paper, Orlando Police said the arrest was lawful but didn't explain why the two field tests were wrong'