Florida Man Arrested After Orlando Police Mistake Doughnut Crumbs For Meth A Florida man who was arrested for drug possession when Orlando police thought glazed doughnut crumbs were methamphetamine remnants according to ABC News : “It’s a terrible feeling to go to jail when you have not done anything,” Dan Rushing, 64, of Orlando, told local ABC affiliate WFTV. “I just don’t want this to happen to somebody else.” He said police found the crumbs of his biweekly Krispy Kreme treat in his car and mistook the icing flakes for drugs after he was pulled over for a traffic violation. “Every other Wednesday, I stop at Krispy Kreme and get a doughnut there, and they found little — four little flakes of the icing,” Rushing said. “They said, ‘We found what we thought was crack cocaine in the beginning, but now we think it’s methamphetamines.’” He told ABC News today that he had just dropped his friend off at chemotherapy when he was pulled over by the police. “They said, ‘Would you mind if I search your car?’ and I said, ‘I don’t have anything to hide.’” “Then they said, ‘Well, do you want to tell me about anything illegal in your car?’” he said. He said he told them he had no idea what they were talking about, and then they produced four doughnut crumbs “no bigger than your thumbnail.” “I kept telling them that’s from a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut,” he told ABC News. He said the police officer insisted that it was drugs and that it had tested positive as a controlled substance with a field kit. He said he was then arrested, jailed for 11 hours, strip-searched and denied his spinal injury medication, which he needs to take every six hours. “I’m not mad at this officer, but I just don’t know where her judgment was,” Rushing said. He said that he has retained an attorney and will be filing a lawsuit against the police department. “The sad thing is I’m finding out a lot of people have gone through this all over the country. A lot of these tests are giving false positives,” he said. A cop can’t recognize a doughnut when she sees it?!?!
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911 Is A Joke: Florida Man Arrested After Orlando Police Mistake Doughnut Crumbs For Meth
