Current Events > Man jailed for nearly 3 months after airport claimed he had liquid meth

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/28/us/honey-liquid-meth-baltimore-airport/index.html

Airport claimed the guy was traveling with liquid meth.

But it was just honey.
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Fair next. Honey is cloying and gross.
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It's so fucked how you can just jail a person for months, no trial
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Why would you even ne jailed for meth to begin with
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Is he gonna get a huge pay day for this?

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"A specially trained drug sniffing dog was alerted to the presence of a controlled dangerous substance and a preliminary test done by the police officers further tested positive for a controlled dangerous substance," the office said. "The confirmatory laboratory test showed (there) was no controlled dangerous substance inside the honey."

The dog probably just wanted some honey

We really shouldn't be using dogs for this purpose.
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FrankGoreHOF posted...

Why would you even ne jailed for meth to begin with

everyone knows breaking bad was a series of training videos, can't be too careful with meth these days
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Traveling with honey while black.

Isolated Incident #46573

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what would one even do with liquid meth. shoot it up? vape it?
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thronedfire2 posted...

what would one even do with liquid meth. shoot it up? vape it?

butt chug that shit
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And the "agents" did nothing wrong according to the article.

lol, fucking pathetic
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But there was no error made in this case, the prosecutor's office said.

Yeah, no error. Other than a dumb animal signaling at honey, dumb people arresting someone because a dumb animal did something, and faulty equipment used to detect drugs. Oh, and all that money that the state is about to payout in a lawsuit, but yeah, there was no error in this case.
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Hope he gets a cool million from those dumbasses
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CableZL posted...

"A specially trained drug sniffing dog was alerted to the presence of a controlled dangerous substance and a preliminary test done by the police officers further tested positive for a controlled dangerous substance," the office said. "The confirmatory laboratory test showed (there) was no controlled dangerous substance inside the honey."

The dog probably just wanted some honey

We really shouldn't be using dogs for this purpose.

They didn't use only dogs. I know you read the part that they also used a quick chemistry test to verify that it had meth in it (which also ended up being a false positive in the end). Shitty situation, but until the formal lab test came back clean, there was no way out of having double confirmations against him.
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Paragon21XX posted...

CableZL posted...

"A specially trained drug sniffing dog was alerted to the presence of a controlled dangerous substance and a preliminary test done by the police officers further tested positive for a controlled dangerous substance," the office said. "The confirmatory laboratory test showed (there) was no controlled dangerous substance inside the honey."

The dog probably just wanted some honey

We really shouldn't be using dogs for this purpose.

They didn't use only dogs. I know you read the part that they also used a quick chemistry test to verify that it had meth in it (which also ended up being a false positive in the end). Shitty situation, but until the formal lab test came back clean, there was no way out of having double confirmations against him.

Yeah, I'm just saying we shouldn't be using dogs for this purpose. Unless dogs suddenly start speaking fluent English or whatever other human language, there's no way we can really know what they're "signalling."
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Paragon21XX posted...

CableZL posted...

"A specially trained drug sniffing dog was alerted to the presence of a controlled dangerous substance and a preliminary test done by the police officers further tested positive for a controlled dangerous substance," the office said. "The confirmatory laboratory test showed (there) was no controlled dangerous substance inside the honey."

The dog probably just wanted some honey

We really shouldn't be using dogs for this purpose.

They didn't use only dogs. I know you read the part that they also used a quick chemistry test to verify that it had meth in it (which also ended up being a false positive in the end). Shitty situation, but until the formal lab test came back clean, there was no way out of having double confirmations against him.

the preliminary testing kits are notorious for false positives. they shouldn't even be able to jail people based on them alone
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Paragon21XX posted...

CableZL posted...

"A specially trained drug sniffing dog was alerted to the presence of a controlled dangerous substance and a preliminary test done by the police officers further tested positive for a controlled dangerous substance," the office said. "The confirmatory laboratory test showed (there) was no controlled dangerous substance inside the honey."

The dog probably just wanted some honey

We really shouldn't be using dogs for this purpose.

They didn't use only dogs. I know you read the part that they also used a quick chemistry test to verify that it had meth in it (which also ended up being a false positive in the end). Shitty situation, but until the formal lab test came back clean, there was no way out of having double confirmations against him.

Im sorry, but that is no excuse to keep an innocent man in jail for 3 months while his life falls apart on the outside.

In the USA you have a right to a speedy trial.

This man was not afforded that opportunity
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This is him.

I'm definitely shocked at the events that transpired. I just don't understand why they'd do that to this man.
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If I had to guess I'd say the dog probably didn't signal shit, they just said it did as justification to run the field test which came back as a false positive. The chances of both the dog and field test both being wrong are pretty slim, but often times members of the public have no idea what the dog's signal is so the officers can just claim he found something.
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