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.”
no they can’t!!! Stop the lies
Ya and that’s what the cops say!
Nuts
Oh hell no! Cop or not I will make your life a living hell if you go if I find you in my vehicle.
actually maam with all due respect the law did change with the supreme court ruling that a warrant is no longer necessary for any search or seizure your right they need proboble cause but you must not deal with cops to much or dont understant how liberal the term proboble cause is,it could be just about anything they deem fit as they do now,the door was cracked,a smell,i noticed something i thought was there and so on are all viable proboble cause exscuses,as far as suing the police good luck with that cause its never been that hard to sue gov/fed offices and with this ruling makes it that much harder,lol
Not right!
Where in our laws is that written?????
This post is several months old and keeps popping up now and again. Truth and Action should be renamed as Fish’in for Outrage.
WTF???!!
A lawyer would slapping a law suit on there butts so fast there head would swim