a few days later I talked to an informant after the stop and he told me i missed the stuff in the vehicle because the suspect was bragging about me missing it. I couldnt find one or any drugs on this guy or in the car. I did however recieve a call from another agency that this person always carries a gun. ![]() I did not find anything in the vehicle besides the open container. I was able to search the vehicle because there were open containers in plain view and open containers of alcoholic beverages in PA are illegal. But if you're in there, hand me that extra throttle return spring, because mine popped off again.Ive gotten very involved in drug work as of late I made a car stop in which the one passenger who earlier ditched 34 packets of heroin (nothing i could charge) had 5000.00 in cash on his person. Stay out of my hidden compartments, Ohio. Sure, a car with hidden compartments (or, say, a trunk or spare wheel well or glove box) can be used to smuggle drugs, but I think a key criteria of arresting someone for smuggling drugs should include some drugs that they're smuggling. If that means having a bunch of handy compartments to store things, so be it. Are Ohio cops going to start arresting cyclists and pedestrians because they have a "hidden compartment" in their rectums that could be used to hold condoms full of meth?Īs long as it's not hurting anyone (or really violating safe driving laws and all that), we should be free to modify our cars as we see fit. Just having a volume of space that could hold something illegal is not the same as having something illegal. Cars are full of compartments, hidden or otherwise, and any of them can be filled with almost anything. I use it for tools, but who's to say I couldn't cram it full of ketamine-cookies or laudanum juice boxes? And If I build in an extra compartment under the spare tire in the front to hold tools, does that make me a probable drug smuggler? My Reliant Scimitar has a hidden compartment as well, under the floor at the rear. Or you could line it with a towel and let a kitten sleep there. You could cram a nice-sized brick of coke back there. My old Beetle has a "hidden compartment" under the back seat, in the well opposite where the battery is. Having a non-factory car is by no means any indicator that you're planning to do anything illegal, even a "hidden compartment." Cars are full of "hidden compartments" factory or not. ![]() some components inside the vehicle that did not appear to be factory. The kind of drugs that go by the street name "nothing" and get you so fucked up, you'd swear you'd taken no drugs at all, because you hadn't, because they don't exist. Let's just be absolutely clear about the sorts of drugs and illegal substances found in the compartment in Gurley's car: None. To enact section 2923.241 of the Revised Code to prohibit designing, building, constructing, fabricating, modifying, or altering a vehicle to create or add a hidden compartment with the intent to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance, prohibit operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment with knowledge that the hidden compartment is used or intended to be used to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance, and prohibit a person who has committed a first or second degree felony violation of aggravated trafficking in drugs from operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment. Norman Gurley, the 30 year old who was arrested, was charged with violation of Sec. He was then arrested for having a "hidden compartment" in his car, even though that compartment contained exactly nothing. A man was pulled over for speeding in Lorain County, OH. If there's anything around you like and don't want smashed in frustrated fury, better move it out of the way now.
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