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."
  • 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.