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."
  • @[email protected]
    10•2 months ago

    Couldn’t the woman just say that the raccoon is just a passenger and she has no responsibility for it?

    • @[email protected]English
      6•2 months ago

      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.

      • AZERTY
        6•2 months ago

        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.

        • Nougat
          7•2 months ago

          Furthermore:

          … 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.