Danish drug dealer is arrested carrying 1,000 cannabis joints after getting into a police car he thought was a taxi
By Tariq Tahir
Daily Mail
December 23, 2017
A drug dealer in Denmark is facing prison after getting into a police car with 1000 joints thinking the vehicle was a taxi.
According to police in Copenhagen, the man was in the city's alternative enclave of Christiania and was in such a hurry to get home, he hopped into a police car after mistaking it for a taxi.
He was searched by police who found him to be carrying 1,000 joints, Copenhagen Police wrote on Twitter, thelocal.dk reported.
‘Last night a cannabis dealer from Christiania who wanted to get home quickly got into a taxi. He received a big surprise when he realised it was actually a police car he was sitting in,' police wrote.
'The police officers were happy to see him, since he was carrying around 1,000 joints.'
The force then tweeted a second time to say that the man could face a custodial sentence for the offence.
The arrest came after Copenhagen police increased their presence in Christiana, which was originally set up by hippie squatters in 1971.
Police have carried out several raids and used drones in a clampdown on narcotics dealing in the area.
A raid this week resulted in a number of traders' stands being demolished and several kilos of cannabis confiscated, according to the police Twitter account.
Last year two men in Rexburg, Idaho, carrying more than 20 pounds of pot in their car, gave themselves up to police after mistakenly believing they were being tailed by a patrol car.
In 2009 a 19-year-old drug dealer decided to sell weed by going door-to-door in Brownsville, Texas but one of his clients turned out to be an off-duty police officer.
EDITOR’S NOTE: On two occasions I had a drunk get in my patrol car thinking it was a cab.
1 comment:
I gather this is actually a not-uncommon occurance.
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