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Judi Lynn

(160,537 posts)
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 06:33 PM Oct 2017

Sweet: Man arrested for doughnut glaze gets $37,500

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:59 pm, Friday, October 13, 2017

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man arrested in Florida after police mistook doughnut glaze in his car for meth has received a $37,500 settlement.

Daniel Rushing told the Orlando Sentinel that he received a check last week from the city of Orlando.

Rushing was arrested in December 2015 when Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins spotted flakes of glaze on his car's floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine. Rushing told officers it was likely sugar from Krispy Kreme doughnuts he'd eaten, but roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance.

A state crime lab test cleared Rushing several weeks later, and he filed a lawsuit.







Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Sweet-Man-arrested-for-doughnut-glaze-gets-12276889.php

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Sweet: Man arrested for doughnut glaze gets $37,500 (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2017 OP
Adding it to the File, check it out at... ck4829 Oct 2017 #1
My friend, Gary Don, got arrested in Georgia for having a marijuana plant displacedtexan Oct 2017 #4
Hey, if there's a blog post or news story about it anywhere, I would love to include it. Thanks. ck4829 Oct 2017 #5
Sorry. This was in 1974. displacedtexan Oct 2017 #6
I see. ck4829 Oct 2017 #7
That's very bad botany not fooled Oct 2017 #10
Bad botany is right!!!! LeftInTX Oct 2017 #11
Boston Fern looks nothing like marijuana. Those cops were morons. yardwork Oct 2017 #12
If it keeps costing the municipality a lot of money, maybe Aristus Oct 2017 #2
These fines need to come out of police pension funds. EL34x4 Oct 2017 #19
Yes, but doughnuts are just like crack to many cops. NBachers Oct 2017 #3
I would think that any cop could recognize doughnut glaze. n/t spike jones Oct 2017 #9
Especially Krispy Kreme TexasBushwhacker Oct 2017 #20
I'm gonna make some donut glaze then call 911 on myself KWR65 Oct 2017 #8
Time to buy different roadside drug test kits. Sneederbunk Oct 2017 #13
I knew of a very effective DUi defense lawyer dixiegrrrrl Oct 2017 #16
I dont believe for one minute it came back positive on a road side drug test...... Old Vet Oct 2017 #14
me either obamanut2012 Oct 2017 #18
Like Obamanaut, I Concur ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #25
Anyone buying Krispy Kreme doughnuts deserves to be arrested. edbermac Oct 2017 #15
Gotta admit, I love 'em n/t TexasBushwhacker Oct 2017 #21
I never got the Krispy Kreme fad, they were not even good glazed donuts. olddad56 Oct 2017 #22
I would LOVE to see the camera footage of that traffic stop. Calista241 Oct 2017 #17
How the hell do u confuse doughnut glaze with meth? romanic Oct 2017 #23
And he is a white guy oberliner Oct 2017 #24

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
1. Adding it to the File, check it out at...
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 06:37 PM
Oct 2017
http://tpalladium.freeforums.net/board/53/drug-test-fraud-file

It's getting a little longer. I am incredibly surprised because I don't see anyone else keeping a running list of this nonsense.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
4. My friend, Gary Don, got arrested in Georgia for having a marijuana plant
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 06:54 PM
Oct 2017

in the back of his station wagon, next to his accordion. He spent an uncomfortable night in jail, until the state college botanist arrived and pronounced the plant a healthy Boston Fern.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
6. Sorry. This was in 1974.
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 07:00 PM
Oct 2017

Dumbfuckery has no expiration date, though. Do you have a volume dedicated to Florida Man?

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
10. That's very bad botany
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 08:02 PM
Oct 2017

Confusing a Boston fern with cannabis???? The LEO who made the preliminary determination obviously didn't have sufficient know-how to be throwing citizens in jail based on such a boneheaded ID.

Aristus

(66,369 posts)
2. If it keeps costing the municipality a lot of money, maybe
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 06:45 PM
Oct 2017

the municipality will crack down on dumbfuck cops.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
16. I knew of a very effective DUi defense lawyer
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 10:23 PM
Oct 2017

Back when breathalysers were first being widely used.
He challenged the field test by interrogating not only the arresting officer but police Dept. adherence to the mandated calibration tests of the instruments.
Seems the breathalysers were supposed to be checked for accuracy and re-calibrated every few months or so and police depts were not doing it, thus the cases were being dismissed.
Would think maybe that is still a good legal issue.

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
17. I would LOVE to see the camera footage of that traffic stop.
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 01:05 AM
Oct 2017

I wish Live PD was following those cops that night.

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