NYPD Arrests Man For Possession of Breath Mints

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

A Brooklyn man was arrested after police mistook his breath mints for Ecstasy.

Forty-six-year-old Ron Hankins was walking down a Brooklyn street in April when an officer "observed the defendant in possession of a plastic bag containing a quantity of methylenedioxymethamphetamins."

According to Hankins, the police stopped without cause and searched him.

He was arrested for possession of MDMA, handcuffed and held for 30 hours.

According to the complaint's admittedly boilerplate language, the lead officer had professional training in the identification of ecstasy, had previously seized ecstasy, and subsequently determined that Hankins' pills were ecstasy.

Except the pills were actually breath mints.

Now Hankins is is suing, claiming although he repeatedly told police that they were breath mints, he was still arrested, booked and arraigned.

It's not the NYPD's first time mistaking candy for drugs — another Brooklyn man was arrested and held for 24 hours in October after officers mistook his Jolly Ranchers for meth.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/nypd-cops-mistake-mints-for-ecstasy-687435

This is just gross incompetence, the police had no right to arrest this man and I hope he gets paid for their over zealous actions. I know here in FL anytime drugs are involved they bring a test kit out if they don't already have one and test it on the spot, then it is also sent to a lab. If it doesn't come back positive for drugs then you aren't charged with it. How does the NYPD not have this capability?

 

[NickNitro]

Yay for NYPD! I need to carry breath mints around more often in NYC. Hopefully I can get a big pay day out of it.

 

[Destructus86]

I wish cops would accidently arrest me...I have some medical bills I need to pay.

 

[Tropico]

Yay for NYPD! I need to carry breath mints around more often in NYC. Hopefully I can get a big pay day out of it.

Don't forget the sour apple Jolly Ranchers, pour some pixie sticks into baggies and some oregano into another. Multiply your chances, dude!

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Well, they ARE the gateway freshener

 

[Victarion]

In my time the kids liked to snort their Pop Rocks and crushed Warhead candies.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I used to melt jolly ranchers in a spoon and inject them into my veins...but then I found the Jesus

 

[Tropico]

In my time the kids liked to snort their Pop Rocks and crushed Warhead candies.

That hurt just reading it.

 

[NickNitro]

I snorted a pixie stick one time as a kid, we all laughed and coughed out pixie stick dust. It was pretty funny.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

My city has some of the dumbest ****ing cops...

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I hear the quality of the roads are pretty sh***y in the city of Shadow Moses also.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I started out with Nerds, my friends said they were harmless. Then one of my friends introduced me to Starburst. Before I knew it I was doing hundreds of dollars worth of Skittles and Snickers a week. By 24 I was homeless out on the street sucking **** for Chick-O-Stick fixes.

Candy. Not even once

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I hear them Milky Way bars'll kill ya.

 

[GreenBillyIdol]

I hear them Milky Way bars'll kill ya.

Eh, they might really damage a few organs here and there, but those candy bars are a warm up to...

 

[Thundercrack85]

We should just have a NYPD shenanigans thread.

 

[Warhammer]

Embrace New Yorkers! This is where your tax dollars are going to.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I'm kinda surprised, not a brown skinned teenager this time
Arrest immediately? They can't check it in the streets? No "Excuse me sir, can I see your bag?"?

 

[KevanG]

I'm sure the cops were disappointed when they tried some and they were only mints. They must have thought it was a huge waste of time.

 

[Teelie]

I hear them Milky Way bars'll kill ya.

The Dark Milky Ways are truly hardcore.