American spent three months for the transportation of cotton candy
'02.12.2018'
Source: Medusa
In 2017, a resident of the US state of Georgia, Dasha Fincher, spent three months under arrest because of the cotton candy she was transporting in a car, was mistaken for methamphetamine. Now Fincher demands compensation in court.
Woman detained 31 December 2016, tells Medusa. Two assistants to the sheriff of Monroe County (Fincher lives there) stopped the car in which she was driving, explaining that their attention was attracted by the too dark tinted glass. They asked for permission to check the car and found inside a large bag filled with bags of blue substance.
Fincher said it was cotton candy (probably by that time, the sugar had crystallized). The police sniffed the contents of one of the packages and decided to test for methamphetamine using a special field kit.
The test showed a positive result. Fincher and the driver of the car (according to CNN, this is her partner; Heavy.com writes that his name is David Morris) were arrested on charges of transporting methamphetamine and storing it. Fincher refused to admit guilt. She continued to insist that it was cotton candy.
The substance found in the woman was sent for examination, and she herself was offered to go on bail of a million dollars. Fincher did not have the required amount, and she spent more than three months in custody - until the examination was completed. The audit showed that the substance found was indeed cotton candy, and the field test gave a false positive result. The results of the examination came 22 March 2017 of the year, but Fincher was released only on April 4, the woman’s lawsuit states.
“Most of all I was afraid that my granddaughter would forget me,” she admitted to CNN.
In the statement of claim, Fincher said that because of her arrest, she could not be next to her daughter when she had a miscarriage, and also missed the birth of twin boys with her son. In addition, in prison a woman broke her arm and, according to her, did not receive proper medical care. She was also denied treatment for ovarian cysts. For all this, Fincher demanded compensation, the amount of which was left to the discretion of the court.
The woman told CNN that with the help of the lawsuit she wants to make changes in the field drug testing system.
“I think the best thing they could do is to change the way of testing or to conduct additional training for the police. What happened is insane. And it took so much time to understand the situation, ”Fincher complained.
The women’s defendants are the Monroe County authorities, who detained her sheriff’s assistants and Sirchie Acquisition, whose reagent was used in field testing. It costs about two dollars and is widely used by the police. As the Marshall Project human rights organization wrote in 2015, this reagent has repeatedly produced false positive results. In particular, because of him, the police found marijuana in the herbal collection, heroin in engine oil, crack in chewing gum and methamphetamine in candy.
