A woman has been arrested when a raccoon named Chewy was holding a meth pipe in the driver’s seat of her car in what police are calling a “strange encounter on patrol."
However, a subsequent search revealed that Vidal’s car contained a bulk amount of methamphetamine, crack cocaine and three used glass methamphetamine pipes, police said.
She’s cooked bro. She has paperwork claiming the raccoon as a pet and it holding a meth pipe on bodycam allowed probable cause to justify the search. Fuck the police but they’re unfortunately probably going to get the conviction.
… whose registered owner had an active warrant and a suspended driver’s license, …
The possibility of the pipe-wielding raccoon having acquired the pipe independently and without the driver’s knowledge doesn’t invalidate the search that found all the drugs. The active warrant is enough.
Def sounds like the trail of evidence is weak.
Unless the racoon was caged or on a lead. Surly the defence will claim it found the stuff and dragged it into the car.
Even if the driver has a history etc. seems the racoon is all sorts of reasonable doubt.
She’s cooked bro. She has paperwork claiming the raccoon as a pet and it holding a meth pipe on bodycam allowed probable cause to justify the search. Fuck the police but they’re unfortunately probably going to get the conviction.
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The possibility of the pipe-wielding raccoon having acquired the pipe independently and without the driver’s knowledge doesn’t invalidate the search that found all the drugs. The active warrant is enough.