To Jail Three Months For A Visual Error

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A Florida man spent three months in jail after police mistaken drywall particles found in his car for cocaine.

As reported by WFTV-TV, everything started in March, when the police in Oviedo, Florida, arrested Karlos Cashe, for driving with the lights of his vehicle burned out. The subject, who was on probation on the marijuana and cocaine charges stemming from a 2015 arrest, is currently working as a maintenance employee and it appears that powder with the consistency of drywall powder from the drywall panels he uses for his repairs is he had watered in his car.

The officer who detained him found this material as a suspect and, according to him, upon conducting the initial test, it was found to be cocaine. Cashe was detained and taken to prison where he spent 90 days, while further testing for the substance was carried out.

Three months later, the additional tests were negative for cocaine, so the man was released. "I know, in fact, that it is drywall dust because I work in maintenance," he assured that news outlet.

Now Cashe is asking for an internal investigation to be carried out at the Oviedo Police Department, as he does not want anyone else to have to live his odyssey. "I was there, sitting 90 days, knowing that I was innocent," he declared.

This is not the first time such an error has happened. Last year the Orlando police, also in Florida (about 20 minutes from Oviedo), arrested a motorist and confused the glaze of a donut that she ate in her vehicle, with Crystal Meth. The suspect also had to wait, detained, until the laboratory results cleared up the error.