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Terrylynn68
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Illinois-My Son and his friend were walking home from school last month and on the way home the friend found a TOY PLASTIC hand gun on the ground, he picked it up and proceeded to walk to our house with it. Passerby seen them, called police saying there were teenage boys with gun walking down road. She followed the boys home and reported to police what house they went into. I was at work, the only one's home were my 15 yr. old son, his 16 yr old friend, and my 7 yr. old daughter. The boys were out in the garage, my daughter in the house watching T.V. The police went through the alley and proceeded to "search" the boys and garage. They found the toy and proceeded to arrest the boys for possesion of alchohol because they were standing next to an UNOPENED WARM bottle of beer that had been in the garage for atleast a week. They also confiscated some catnip they found in one of the packed boxes in our garage and wrote them up for cannabis also! After they loaded the boys in the cars, they proceeded to go through my house, upstairs and downstairs and also put my 7 yr. old into another squad car and took all three kids to the station. We went to court yesterday, and because the boys will not accept guility for the possesion of the beer that was in the garage we now have to go to a bench trial. They are talking a $500 fine here! Do they really have a case? It is stated on the ticket that the were standing next to an unopened bottle of beer...