Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackKnight
This reminds me of a case I got involved with many years ago.
A trooper in a neighboring state came across an unoccupied but overturned truck. The trooper continued to drive and came across two Mexican nationals.
He told them to get into the squad car. While inside, one of them asked the trooper if they were in trouble. The trooper in turn asked why would he ask that. The response was because of "the drugs in the truck." Turned out there was hundreds of kilo's of cocaine in the truck and they were transporting it.
I got involved because it was being managed and delivered to someone from within our jurisdiction.
Back to the OP. Not "silly police", but more along the lines of "lucky police."
|
On of the towns a few miles away from us a year or two before my time with GHPD had a similar incident. An officer stopped to help a truck with a blow out. He did run the plate, but not the people. Plate came back fine. He crawled under to help release the spare tire, and they started beating him with crow bars and took off in the squad car. Turns out they had boosted the truck from a home during a break in while the family was at work and school. They had ID, and what is more they had wants out for them. Significant felony wants. It was drilled into be, talk is cheap. You hook up, pat down, pat down again and give them a semi reclined seat in a car till you can verify who the fuck these people are.