A Tampa, FL man returned from a concert to find that his expensive business truck completely ransacked – by police.
They had no warrant and did so without his presence, simply leaving him a note, which read:
“Sir, your car was checked by TPD K-9. The vehicle was searched for marijuana due to a strong odor coming from the passenger side of the vehicle. Any questions call Cpl Fanning”
“You think if anyone is going to break into your vehicle in Ybor, the last person you think, it’s going to be the cops,” stated owner Matthew Heller.
Police actually ripped out wires and trashed the electronics in his truck, which he used as a display model for his business. They found no marijuana.
The local police dept claims they had a right to perform this search, but attorney Bryant Camareno disagrees:
“It’s an illegal search,” Camareno stated. “Usually if it’s some kind of unoccupied vehicle there has to be some level of exigent circumstance to justify searching a vehicle without a search warrant. Exigent could mean if there is a dead body inside, if there is a screaming child locked in the car, a dog but if the car is unoccupied there is no exigency to justify the search.”
Nazis
Dear old DHS funding police..more and more Soviet style !
then i guess we are allowed yo search their cruisers, since, we the tax payers bought them for the police dept.use?
Touch my car without a warrant or me being there and ull find a urself looking down the barrel of a 45… Thank god I don’t live in Florida…
this is wrong.
When I worked at a certain prison, the inmates would light up tea bags. (Funny relationship tea bags and prisons, eh) siht smells just like pot!
Then we have shakedown.
Light up some tea by an officer near you!
I Catch Them In A B And E I Will Shoot First And Ask Questions Later Cops Or No Cops Still Burglary
42 U.S. Code § 1983 – Civil action for deprivation of rights
Current through Pub. L. 113-108. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
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Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
Police state??
Will the police pay for the damages they have caused?