Big Pot Stash Turns Out to Be "Hay"
By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Fri Jan 24, 2003 at 10:20:47 AM EST
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Posted on Fri Jan 24, 2003 at 10:20:47 AM EST
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Talk about getting egg on your face, how's this from the Chicago Sun-Times: Big 'pot' stash was only hay
What Chicago police thought was more than $660,000 worth of dope in a pickup truck last month turned out to be hay from a Roman Catholic church's nativity scene. Prosecutors dropped felony drug charges Thursday against Jose Galvan, 43, and his co-worker, Juan Luna, 21, after crime lab tests confirmed the mistake, said Jerry Lawrence, spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office. The two remained at Cook County Jail as federal immigration officials checked to see if they are in the country legally."Their criminal defense attorney, Peter Vilkelis, says:
"Somebody must have seen these two big bales, saw the men were Mexican and made an assumption. These guys were treated like they were cartel drug traffickers. Once we finally secure their release, we will be talking to a civil rights lawyer."The "egg on their face" aspect is amusing. What's not amusing is that these men spent weeks in jail while the cops, at their leisure, tested the non-drugs. And that one of them is still in jail pending a check on his immigration status--it doesn't take three weeks to do that.
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