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.”
Who is changing the laws, this is so wrong, I think insurance company’s might have something to say about this.
This country is becoming a tyrannical and lawless enterprise. Are we so afraid that we allow this kind of thing to go on? When it comes to our worst enemies however (both internally and externally), there is only surrender and a hands-off attitude. It wasn’t like this before Obama. Deny as he likes, he cannot deny this fact. He openly supports the enemy of our friends and of ourselves.
then we can shoot them with a 50 cal just for the hell of it bang bang your dead copper
Yeh, what happened to our rights and the Constitution?
Watch out for the rattler under the seat, he has a mean bite and lots of poison with it
Pure Gestapo tactics. Beware America, this is no longer a free country
Now you have the right to be a victim of the police??for no reason?what kind of law is this?and who voted for a law like this??thats unconstitutional…
this is what you get when you have liberals making the laws!!
No 4th amendment…?
Americans get the government we deserve – especially for all of you who stayed home on election day and didn’t vote. You deserve this rising police state and loss of our civil liberties. And what makes me angry is that you’ll all do it next time as well and it will get worse. It was obvious to anyone with half a brain what these guys were up to and this country elected the same crew – go figure.