(INSIDE EDITION) -- A Florida man has received $37,500 after cops arrested him when they mistook doughnut crumbs for meth.
In 2015, Orlando police officers pulled over Daniel Rushing, 65, for speeding out of a 7-11 parking lot after they’d been monitoring it due to several drug complaints.
An officer arrested Rushing when she spotted a “rocky, white substance” on the floorboard of his car, but Rushing insisted to officers that it was not drugs.
“I kept telling them, ‘That’s glaze from a doughnut,’” Rushing told the Orlando Sentinel. “They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, ‘No, it’s meth, crystal meth.’”
Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins reportedly administered a series of roadside drug tests, which the officers had not been trained properly to use. Two of them turned up positive for cocaine.
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Rushing was strip-searched and spent hours in jail before being released on $2,500 bond, NY Daily News Reported.
When lab tests came back, however, it turned out that Rushing was telling the truth. The crumbs had been glaze from a doughnut.
Riggs-Hopkins resigned a week later after being reprimanded.
Rushing sued the city over the incident and after a settlement, the City of Orlando agreed to pay him $37,500 for the wrongful arrest, reports said.
He told the Orlando Sentinel that he hasn’t been able to get a job since his false arrest.
“I haven’t been able to work,” Rushing said. “People go online and see that you’ve been arrested.”
Rushing, however, hasn’t let the experience taint him, he told the paper that he still goes to Krispy Kreme to get a glazed doughnut every other Wednesday. He just doesn't eat it in the car.
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jackpoll4100 on October 15th, 2017 at 22:44 UTC »
This happened to my ex girlfriend a few months back, it was cracker crumbs or something like that. She had to hire a lawyer and the court date kept getting pushed back and charges were eventually dropped after the lab tests on the "meth" came back and said that it was not meth or any kind of drug. They still made her take another drug test before they dropped the charges though, it was some grade A bullshit.
joesii on October 15th, 2017 at 22:25 UTC »
Who the heck lets any significant amount of valuable drugs fall —and stay— on the floor of their car though?
Because that's where the police found the glaze— literally searching the crumbs on the floor.
EL_CHEETO_BURRITO on October 15th, 2017 at 21:11 UTC »
Good. Dumbass looking to be a big shot couldn't tell the difference between glaze and meth.