Brown County Sheriff’s Department in Wisconsin used Flock cameras, which record the license plates of every vehicle that passes by them, to identify and arrest a resident of Wisconsin for purchasing marijuana. Per the report, the cops used Flock’s network of cameras to track the man as he drove from Wisconsin, where possession remains a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for a first offense, to Michigan, where recreational weed purchase and possession are legal.
Per the report, the cops looked up his license plate and found that he “travels to Michigan frequently.” Of course, they couldn’t prove by the cameras alone that he was going to Michigan to buy weed. But apparently just going across state lines is enough to create suspicion. In a criminal complaint filed by the police against the man, they call Michigan a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there.”
Surely this will make the people accept these.
There’s a restaurant in a small town in Michigan that I enjoy often. The town is home to five weed shops and not much else.
I drive there from Indiana, so I fully expect to be pulled over at some point.
Waste their time
Yeah I remember the many years where “going to Michigan” implied “to buy weed” in Ohio
You may already know but it is now illegal in Ohio to possess weed bought from outside Ohio
I didn’t know that (moved away last year), but I’m very not surprised. The state government was pissed we legalized weed and went out of their way to make it hostile including crazy taxes and putting the revenue into cop budgets
Yeah Dewine wanted to raise taxes on it to 20%, up from 10% and on top of the ~10% sales tax. Fortunately the state legislature prevented it.
Brewster’s?
Nah, that place is too Punky for me…
#ReferenceFromBeforeMyOwnTime
I don’t see how going to a different state gives them probable cause. No way this is legal.
The searches came to light in a Wisconsin criminal complaint against Edward Abrams-Phillips, who was wanted for bail jumping on domestic violence charges. But the criminal complaint makes clear that beyond the bail jumping and domestic violence charges, police specifically studied Abrams-Phillips’ interstate travel to create the pretext for searching his car for marijuana. The bail jumping charge was dismissed; Abrams-Phillips was found guilty only of weed possession in the case, according to the court records.
So they did have probable cause in this case since they were already tracking him and he wasn’t allowed to leave the state.
Where did you find this? It’s not in the article. Also, this doesn’t specifically say that he wasn’t allowed to leave the state. I don’t know enough about bail rules to know whether that would automatically be the case or not.
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Wisconsin is full of billboards about legal weed in surrounding states.
Brown county, for example, has advertisements for at least half a dozen dispensaries, all put up on the highway leading to the UP, many of which tell you exactly how many miles it is to the dispensary.
Just ridiculous to even bother at this point.
Same tech they’ve used to try and arrest a woman from Texas for getting an abortion.
jesus christ, I used to drive to D.C.
Fuck me I’m glad I found an alternative
that weed was ever classified as a drug the cops can hunt you across state lines for is an idiotic farce. What the US really needs is fewer cops and better social programs. If we can pay for a certain middle eastern state to have them, why cant we?
