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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 05:35 PM Sep 2014

Woman Held in Jail for Weeks Over SpaghettiOs,cop thought sauce was meth residue

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/104844/

The officer’s report states he received consent to search Huff’s 1994 Ford Explorer, and searched a bag with the name “Ashley” printed on it. The officer described Huff, a passenger, as “nervous,” noting sores on her face, arms and legs. Inside the bag was a spoon with a “clear, crystal-like substance,” according to the report.

Huff disputes the claim, saying it was orange SpaghettiOs spaghetti sauce, as she told the officer in the police report.

“I found it strange that she would eat SpaghettiOs with a metal spoon while riding in a vehicle, and then put the spoon back in a bag,” the report reads.

The officer reported he found a glass smoking device in the bag as well before conducting a field test for methamphetamine.

“I tested the spoon with a field test kit, and the crystal-like substance on the spoon showed a positive indication for methamphetamine,” the report reads.

Huff was arrested and taken to Hall County Jail.




Http://www.newser.com/story/196544/woman-held-in-jail-for-weeks-over-spaghettios.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_topnews

(NEWSER) – When Ashley Gabrielle Huff was pulled over by a police officer in Gainesville, Ga., on July 2 for a tag light violation, the officer immediately became suspicious of her appearance and demeanor. After finding a spoon in her car with residue on it (and supposedly field-testing it), the officer was convinced it was methamphetamine and arrested Huff, 23, hauling her off to Hall County Jail. She was released at one point, then reincarcerated. Unable to pay her bail, she languished there until Sept. 18—when lab tests came back and proved it was SpaghettiOs sauce, not meth, on the spoon, the Gainesville Times reports.

A police report cited by the Times noted that Huff, 23, seemed "nervous" to the officer who made the traffic stop and that her body was covered in sores. After reportedly getting permission from Huff to search her car, the officer found a bag with a spoon inside, coated with a "clear, crystal-like substance"; he says he also did a field test that showed a "positive indication" for meth. Huff told the officer that it was just SpaghettiOs sauce, but he wasn't buying it. She explains to the Times that she ate straight out of the can and then tossed the can but "threw the spoon in my purse because I had borrowed it from a friend." Now Huff, who says she lost her Waffle House job and missed her kids' birthdays while incarcerated, says she's seeking legal counsel. The police say they were simply "acting in good faith,"

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Woman Held in Jail for Weeks Over SpaghettiOs,cop thought sauce was meth residue (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Sep 2014 OP
Awful story, elleng Sep 2014 #1
i think she is seeking legal help for a lawsuit Liberal_in_LA Sep 2014 #4
I hope so, elleng Sep 2014 #5
If a cop can't tell a red substance from a "clear, crystal-like substance" Kalidurga Sep 2014 #2
Many Hall County/G'ville cops are idiots, but to mistake meth for Spaghetti O's??? NightWatcher Sep 2014 #3
The arresting officer and his buds will LTAO at the Dunkin Donuts. lpbk2713 Sep 2014 #6
Exactly. Ms. Huff should sue him for all he's got. Louisiana1976 Sep 2014 #8
Yet more proof that the average cop hifiguy Sep 2014 #7

elleng

(130,126 posts)
5. I hope so,
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 05:50 PM
Sep 2014

but if they had reason to hold her, she won't win. “I tested the spoon with a field test kit, and the crystal-like substance on the spoon showed a positive indication for methamphetamine,” the report reads.

Should have had counsel to get her OUT immediately, avoid losing her job and missing kids' birthday.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
2. If a cop can't tell a red substance from a "clear, crystal-like substance"
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 05:39 PM
Sep 2014

s/he needs to be fired. Makes me wonder what other obvious things they are messing up.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
3. Many Hall County/G'ville cops are idiots, but to mistake meth for Spaghetti O's???
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 05:43 PM
Sep 2014

I'm so glad I left that area years ago.
I bet the Waffle House has higher standards than the GPD.

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
6. The arresting officer and his buds will LTAO at the Dunkin Donuts.
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 05:52 PM
Sep 2014



Even though the arrest and the lab work probably cost thousands of dollars.
It all was a result of his third rate investigative skills.

He should personally have to pay for all the expense Ms Huff incurred as a
result. Her car was probably impounded. She lost her crappy McJob. And as
a consequence of no paycheck coming in other expenses will start to mount.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
7. Yet more proof that the average cop
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 05:55 PM
Sep 2014

is too damned dumb to tie their own shoes without supervision. And these imbeciles have the power of life and death over people. We are done as a society.

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