A Florida woman shows up for jury selection with foil packets of coke concealed in her cargo pants
On Monday 39-year-old Kristine Mittler of New Port Richey, Florida returned to the West Pasco Judicial Center to see if she had been selected for jury duty. As Kristine passed through the security checkpoint - bzzzzz – the metal detector alarm went off. Sheriff’s deputies found two folded foil packets in the pocket of her cargo pants that had white powder inside. The powder turned out to be 0.6 grams of cocaine. A subsequent check of her straw hat tested positive for meth.
Poor Kristine was busted for possession of cocaine, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Well now, you can’t blame a gal for trying to make jury selection more exciting. Had she used small plastic freezer packets instead of foil, she could have taken a few snorts during a piss break. If nothing else, that would have kept her awake during those dull proceedings.
Unless Kristine cops a plea, she will soon have to sit through another boring jury selection, this time for a jury that will decide her fate.
The meth possession charge seems awfully weak ….. that is unless Kristine could smoke her hat. Likewise for the paraphernalia charge. That charge usually sticks only for drug dealers caught with numerous pieces of foil, not for some user with two packets of coke.
Piling on charges is not uncommon though. It is usually done when the suspect has pissed off the arresting cops. In Kristine’s case it was probably done to get her to cop a plea with two of the charges dropped.
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Some people are idiots. Once upon a time at the prison where I worked we had a sort-of half-assed scared straight tourist program. We had this stoner moron who came in with a fair amount of weed stashed in his shoes. When it was found he pissed his pants and then passed out.
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