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Man drops drugs in front of police, claims it isn’t his
Friday evening, officers spotted a 43-year-old man “very well-known to officers” walking downtown. He is a suspect in a recent break-in. Well-known because in this year alone he has faced 15 petty crime charges in Municipal Court.
When officers stopped to speak with him, the man bent over and dropped a baggie of what appeared to be crack. According to the police report, he told officers, “That’s not my crack.”
They arrested and cuffed him. When he asked what he was being arrested for, he was told possession of crack.
“You can’t charge me with that,” he responded. “Possession is 10 percent of the law, and you only saw me dropping it. You did not see it on me.”
Officers assured him they could.
While at the county lockup, the report said the man turned to one of the officers and said it was funny that he had been smoking crack on nearly a daily basis for 12 years and this was the first time police had ever arrested him or found cocaine on him.
The officer then asked, “So you are now stating that the crack was yours?”
The man just stared at the officer and stood for the first time without comment.
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