Woman Spends A Month In Jail After Cops Mistake SpaghettiOs For Meth

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Woman Spends A Month In Jail After Cops Mistake SpaghettiOs For Meth

Ashley Huff, a 23-year-old woman from the city of Commerce, was the passenger in a car that was pulled over on July 2. Police noticed she had a spoon in her bag that had “some residue” on it. Huff told them it was just SpaghettiO sauce, but they slapped her with a charge of possession of methamphetamine.

Huff was jailed for about two weeks, then released on her own recognizance, her attorney, Chris van Rossem, told The Huffington Post. However, one of the conditions of her release was that she would make a series of court appointments, and after she missed one, she was reincarcerated on August 2.

Unable to afford to pay bond, Huff stayed behind bars until September 18, when a lab analysis found that the substance on the spoon contained no illicit substances.

Van Rossem speculated that the reason the crime lab analysis took so long was simply because of the sheer volume of cases the lab needs to process. Huff’s results, he said, actually came back “relatively quickly.”

Even though Huff knew she was innocent, during the weeks she sat in jail she was strongly considering taking a plea deal — and a permanent criminal record — just so she could get out, Van Rossem told HuffPost.

“You just get worn out, your spirit gets worn down,” the attorney said. “You reach a point where you’ll do anything just to get out of jail.”

All charges against Huff have been dismissed.

She is now contemplating taking legal action, according to KRON 4, but police officers say they acted in good faith. The arresting officer said he “found it strange” that Huff would eat SpaghettiOs and put the spoon in her purse.
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The cop "found it strange" that someone would have a spoon in their purse? I find it strange that someone so f'ing stupid has a job with so much authority. He should be fired for being a moron and I hope she follows through with suing. A month in a dumpy jail cell with crappy food, disgusting showers and nasty toilets is bad enough. How about the fact that she probably lost her job or at the very least, lost wages. How about the fact that she may have been evicted from her place or lost her car for not making payments. And so on... she needs to sue. Better yet, make the cop pay out of his own pocket seeing as he's too stupid to tell the difference between spaghetti sauce and meth, on top of not being able to comprehend a spoon in a purse. "Spoon in purse? No, no, no, can't be. It's drugs." as he beats his chest like donkey kong.
 
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Maybe I watch too much television, but I thought police had color changing tests to see if something is indeed a narcotic
 
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Woman Spends A Month In Jail After Cops Mistake SpaghettiOs For Meth




The cop "found it strange" that someone would have a spoon in their purse? I find it strange that someone so f'ing stupid has a job with so much authority. He should be fired for being a moron and I hope she follows through with suing. A month in a dumpy jail cell with crappy food, disgusting showers and nasty toilets is bad enough. How about the fact that she probably lost her job or at the very least, lost wages. How about the fact that she may have been evicted from her place or lost her car for not making payments. And so on... she needs to sue. Better yet, make the cop pay out of his own pocket seeing as he's too stupid to tell the difference between spaghetti sauce and meth, on top of not being able to comprehend a spoon in a purse. "Spoon in purse? No, no, no, can't be. It's drugs." as he beats his chest like donkey kong.
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You think she is upset now? Just wait until she gets the bill for her time in jail. Average is $85/day plus court costs.
 
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You can charge someone with possession of meth because a spoon looks weird to them?
 
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Unless there's a good bit more to this than what is being reported (you know how that goes) I hope this lady and her lawyer reduce the courthouse to rubble.
 
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These SpaghettiO eaters have been ruining our country long enough. Its good to see the police are finally doing something about it.
 
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Man that's ridiculous. I'd sue the hell out of the county/police department. I'd have that moron cops job too.
 
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The Ron Mexico said:
These SpaghettiO eaters have been ruining our country long enough. Its good to see the police are finally doing something about it.
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If they really jailed her solely for possession of the spoon, SEVERE consequences should be dealt. This is seriously and genuinely outrageous if true. How do you lock up someone with no evidence of drugs? That is sincerely asinine.
 
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She's only contemplating a law suit. WHAT?! I don't think there is any question about it.

I'd own the city after that and I'd get the cop fired in addition and I wouldn't care if he had 6 kids to feed.
 
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To be fair, she doesn't sound like she's the sharpest tool in the shed. It wasn't very smart missing court appointments when you were told if you miss them you're going to jail.

The cops very well may be morons, but I'm wondering if she didn't act like a complete tool. Not that it excuses the cops but still.
 
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To be fair, she doesn't sound like she's the sharpest tool in the shed. It wasn't very smart missing court appointments when you were told if you miss them you're going to jail.

The cops very well may be morons, but I'm wondering if she didn't act like a complete tool. Not that it excuses the cops but still.
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Why should she have to make court appearances for having spagettios on a spoon? Why did it take a month to determine it was spagettios? Better yet how can you arrest someone without knowing exactly what you're arresting them for to begin with? Either you know or you don't.
 
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The way it works in our jurisdiction in TN is that the police have an unofficial test that they perform to determine if a substance is a narcotic. It's pretty accurate but not fail proof. Then, if the case goes to trial or if a party requests a test, it is sent to the TBI lab in Nashville. Because of the number of tests, the backlog and lead time is ridiculous.

I actually had a case where the police searched my client's home and found a substance that they believed tested positive for meth. My client was adamant that it was a substance to help plants grow. I don't remember the name, but I did look it up. Sure enough, my client spent several months in jail, and the test came back negative for meth.

That said, I guess I don't understand how SpaghettiO sauce and meth are even the same color. This story is just strange.
 
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Surprised that cops don't arrest each other for suspicion of cocaine after seeing the residue of powdered doughnuts on each other's upper lip.
 
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VolGee4 said:
The way it works in our jurisdiction in TN is that the police have an unofficial test that they perform to determine if a substance is a narcotic. It's pretty accurate but not fail proof. Then, if the case goes to trial or if a party requests a test, it is sent to the TBI lab in Nashville. Because of the number of tests, the backlog and lead time is ridiculous.

I actually had a case where the police searched my client's home and found a substance that they believed tested positive for meth. My client was adamant that it was a substance to help plants grow. I don't remember the name, but I did look it up. Sure enough, my client spent several months in jail, and the test came back negative for meth.

That said, I guess I don't understand how SpaghettiO sauce and meth are even the same color. This story is just strange.
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This! Where was the field test kit? I would have demanded a field test and if the cop didn't have one he'd wait until a cop that had a field test kit got there.
 
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VolGee4 said:
I actually had a case where the police searched my client's home and found a substance that they believed tested positive for meth. My client was adamant that it was a substance to help plants grow. I don't remember the name, but I did look it up. Sure enough, my client spent several months in jail, and the test came back negative for meth.
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Ok, I just have to ask; short of there being a lot more to the story how is what you describe even remotely legal? How does one spend days, nevermind months, in jail for a substance that cannot be demonstrated to be illicit?
 
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Ok, I just have to ask; short of there being a lot more to the story how is what you describe even remotely legal? How does one spend days, nevermind months, in jail for a substance that cannot be demonstrated to be illicit?
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Apparently, the substance must have given a false positive in the field test. Obviously, plant food does have some strong substances in it, and they believed it to be a kind of narcotic. But, I haven't found this to happen very often.

However, I have found the weights of narcotics to be greatly enhanced in quite a few cases. It is either bad police work, or they just don't care. Of course, the weight can determine the type of charge. We have had cocaine weighed in a baby jar (jar and all), and of course, the cocaine was only a fraction of the total weight. I also had one where the cocaine was put into a bag of broken glass, and the entire bag was weighed. My client said there was no way he had that much, and he was correct because the glass was the majority of the weight. Not saying what clients do is right, but this stuff happens.
 
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VolGee4 said:
Apparently, the substance must have given a false positive in the field test. Obviously, plant food does have some strong substances in it, and they believed it to be a kind of narcotic. But, I haven't found this to happen very often.
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I'm not saying this was the case, but people abuse "plant food". They shoot, snort, and smoke it, bath salts give a very similar effect too. Like you said it's full of strong, potent chemicals. It gets you all geeked up and spun out just the same as meth, and that's why people use it. I've never used the plant food stuff, but know people that has, so I do know what I'm talking about. Simply possessing it isn't illegal that I'm aware of, but passing it off as something else would obviously draw attention to yourself. Those cops probably had a good reason to go to your ex clients house. They don't just show up with warrants to search for nothing. If they didn't have a warrant, sounds like he was already on probation, and had been in trouble with the law before.
 
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How come a decent lawyer can't get someone accused of spagettio possession out of jail on their own recognisance.
 
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Surprised that cops don't arrest each other for suspicion of cocaine after seeing the residue of powdered doughnuts on each other's upper lip.
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That reminds me of a captioned picture I seen.

Cop: "Have you been smoking weed, your eyes look awfully red".

Civilian: "Have you been eating donuts, your eyes look awfully glazed".
 
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Why should she have to make court appearances for having spagettios on a spoon? Why did it take a month to determine it was spagettios? Better yet how can you arrest someone without knowing exactly what you're arresting them for to begin with? Either you know or you don't.
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Again I'm not defending the stupidity of it all, but once it's all in motion you comply. She had to make court appearances because she was told to make them. Not showing up doesn't help you.
 
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