This is in VA - A friend of mine was en route to meet someone with the intention of buying some ecstacy and was abruptly pulled out of his car when he stopped at a Wendys (where he was supposed to meet the guy), was arrested, charged with some Conspiracy to Distribute charge, searched, had his cellphone and items from his car confiscated, and spent the day in jail. Bottom line is, it was a totally BS charge, completely unconstitutional (all he did was pull up to a Wendy's), he only had like $30 on him so there's no way a major deal was going to take place. He was set up by the dealer guy (who apparently led police to believe he was middle-manning a deal involving hundreds of pills) and was arrested with a felony charge even though he never really followed through with anything. All he was guilty of was talking about something on a phone and pulling up to a Wendys. He got a lawyer and the judge dismissed it immediately and admonished the detective, from what I'm told. Now, even though it was dismissed, the felony arrest will still be on his record, right? Can he sue someone or something? That's a lot of time & money spent on something that was orchestrated just to get some narc off the hook at the expense of someone who hadn't broken any laws. Plus he was looking to get into the Navy which now he might have trouble getting clearances, because they ask not if one's been convicted, but if they've been charged with anything. It's messed up. What can he do?
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