What is the name of your state? - Maryland
A few days ago my boyfriend and I were coming back from the mall on our way back home. We were stopped for speeding - 47 in a 30 - by a state trooper. When she walked up to the door, she told us why she had stopped us and then asked what have you guys been smoking? she then made my boyfriend get out of the car and move to the rear. she then asked him where the marijuana was and he said i don't know what you're talking about. at this point i was sitting in the passenger seat of my car and i was calling my mom. she came up to my door, opened it, yanked my arm and told me to get off the cell phone. My boyfriend then asked if he could use the phone to call his lawyer, and she said no. She then came back to my door and said that she was going to search the car, and wanted to know if she was going to find any seeds, stems, etc. I said I don't know what you're talking about. She then began searching me, putting her hands down my shirt and such. By this time another officer had arrived and she made me sit on the ground in front of her car. Her and another officer started searching the car, finding "cigar tubes" which I had been collecting for an art project, a case of warm beer, and some marijuana stems. They also found a 200 g. weight that came with a weighing machine i bought for a friend for his creatine and other health powder stuff a few months earlier. She then moved me towards her car and shoved her hands down my pants saying that she wanted to know where the marijuana was and if iit was down my pants, she was going to find it. At this point, she placed both of us under arrest, without telling us why. We didn't find out our charges until we arrived at the detention center about 5 hours after we were arrested. When she put me in her car, she read me my Miranda rights, then stated "do you choose to remain silent and waive these rights?" to which I responded "you told me i had the right to remain silent so i will remain silent". she then said, fine be that way, then radioed to have my car towed, "upon the drivers request". On the way to the police station she called a friend on her cell phone bragging about her two arrests. this may not be illegal but it sure as hell is frustrating! upon arrival, my boyfriend was strip-searched in his cell, though he wasn't even wearing boxers. We were then moved to the detention center, where I was allowed to call my parents and a few hours after being in the holdnig cell received a report stating that I had been charged with "posession of a controlled dangerous substance, and posess with intent to use drug paraphernalia to wit: empty cigar containers with cigar shavings removed, used to inhale/introduce into the human body by MARIHUANA" (she spelled it marihuana throughout the report). My boyfriend was not able to use the phone until he was released from the detention center, 7 hours after we were arrested, and he used a pay phone outside of the center. These cops were very, very disrespectful towards us and I would LOVE to get them in trouble. Granted, I had illegal things in my car, but I was hoping they did something to violate my rights in some way. This is my first time being arrested, but my boyfriend had already been arrested by the same officer a few months earlier for obstruction of justice. This has been expunged from his record.
A few days ago my boyfriend and I were coming back from the mall on our way back home. We were stopped for speeding - 47 in a 30 - by a state trooper. When she walked up to the door, she told us why she had stopped us and then asked what have you guys been smoking? she then made my boyfriend get out of the car and move to the rear. she then asked him where the marijuana was and he said i don't know what you're talking about. at this point i was sitting in the passenger seat of my car and i was calling my mom. she came up to my door, opened it, yanked my arm and told me to get off the cell phone. My boyfriend then asked if he could use the phone to call his lawyer, and she said no. She then came back to my door and said that she was going to search the car, and wanted to know if she was going to find any seeds, stems, etc. I said I don't know what you're talking about. She then began searching me, putting her hands down my shirt and such. By this time another officer had arrived and she made me sit on the ground in front of her car. Her and another officer started searching the car, finding "cigar tubes" which I had been collecting for an art project, a case of warm beer, and some marijuana stems. They also found a 200 g. weight that came with a weighing machine i bought for a friend for his creatine and other health powder stuff a few months earlier. She then moved me towards her car and shoved her hands down my pants saying that she wanted to know where the marijuana was and if iit was down my pants, she was going to find it. At this point, she placed both of us under arrest, without telling us why. We didn't find out our charges until we arrived at the detention center about 5 hours after we were arrested. When she put me in her car, she read me my Miranda rights, then stated "do you choose to remain silent and waive these rights?" to which I responded "you told me i had the right to remain silent so i will remain silent". she then said, fine be that way, then radioed to have my car towed, "upon the drivers request". On the way to the police station she called a friend on her cell phone bragging about her two arrests. this may not be illegal but it sure as hell is frustrating! upon arrival, my boyfriend was strip-searched in his cell, though he wasn't even wearing boxers. We were then moved to the detention center, where I was allowed to call my parents and a few hours after being in the holdnig cell received a report stating that I had been charged with "posession of a controlled dangerous substance, and posess with intent to use drug paraphernalia to wit: empty cigar containers with cigar shavings removed, used to inhale/introduce into the human body by MARIHUANA" (she spelled it marihuana throughout the report). My boyfriend was not able to use the phone until he was released from the detention center, 7 hours after we were arrested, and he used a pay phone outside of the center. These cops were very, very disrespectful towards us and I would LOVE to get them in trouble. Granted, I had illegal things in my car, but I was hoping they did something to violate my rights in some way. This is my first time being arrested, but my boyfriend had already been arrested by the same officer a few months earlier for obstruction of justice. This has been expunged from his record.