If not for pencil-necked Oklahoma, Kansas would share a border with Texas. But the two states shared a laugh today, as the Kansas City Star told its readers about a couple of flat-footed Dallas cops who've been driving around with a gigantic stash of coke. At least technically, the Class A drug wasn't theirs. "An officer cleaning the car at a patrol station Wednesday discovered the nearly 50 pounds of cocaine hidden in hydraulically controlled compartments. 'These compartments have recently been more and more popular with drug operations,' said Deputy Chief Julian Bernal, commander of the Narcotics Division. Dallas police put the two-door, 2004 black Infiniti into police service May 7 after seizing it at a drug house, where they also found a 1999 Honda." And the Honda's important because…? "The Honda was sold at auction. Bernal said police planned to contact the person who bought the Honda to find out whether drugs are hidden in that car, too. They are also trying to find out who owned the cocaine they have been driving around." Sounds like a plan to me.
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This is a major screwup. They confiscate a car from drug dealers and they don’t bother to get it onto a hoist to check for hidden compartments?
This should be SOP for any metropolitan police department in this day and age.
In fact, the car should have been inspected by the seizing department before auction, and it should have been inspected AGAIN by the purchasing department.
This is a major screwup. They confiscate a car from drug dealers and they don’t bother to get it onto a hoist to check for hidden compartments?
Or at least have a K-9 walk around it.
“The Honda was sold at auction. Bernal said police planned to contact the person who bought the Honda to find out whether drugs are hidden in that car, too…”
Honda Owner: Hello?
Dallas VICE: Hey, uh, did you find a drugs in your car?
Honda Owner: mmmmmm…nope… [wink, wink]
A few years ago I read a story somewhere about a guy who bought one of those police auction cars. Drove it around for awhile and one weekend decided to go to Mexico.
Busted at the border for a kick panel full of MJ. Yep, turns out to be a drug bust car that wasn’t searched. I think they eventually let the guy go but kept the car – don’t know what happened with the court case.
Well, there are stupid crook stories (like the putative bank robber who used the back of his own deposit slip to demand the money), and we have stupid cop stories like this one.
I still think we ought to legalize most of these drugs for use in supervised clinics. Our current cat-and-mouse game is costing mucho buckos and ain’t working as far as I can tell.
Well that Infiniti is a fine donation to the police, and I’m sure they were quick to get that out on the streets over what they usually have to drive.
Brings a new spin to “toot the horn.”
I’ll bet the dude who bought the Honda was pleasantly surprised when he found out his car came with a rebate.