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Woman arrested after raccoon named Chewy found with meth pipe in driver's seat during police stop (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43737535

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days 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.