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Boy, you’d think if anybody would know the difference between doughnut glaze and hard-core drugs, it would be the cops.
But according to UPI, that wasn’t the case when Orlando police officers pulled over 64-year-old Daniel Rushing late last year.
Police pulled Rushing over on December 11 after he failed to stop while pulling out of the parking lot of a local 7-Eleven and then got clocked going 12 mph over the speed limit. One of the officers asked Rushing to exit the vehicle because he had a concealed carry permit and informed them that he did in fact have a gun on him.
But when he exited his car, Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins saw what she believed was “some sort of narcotic” on the floorboard, so she and her fellow officer searched the rest of the vehicle. They found three more “rocklike” substances and decided to perform a roadside test on them.
Despite Rushing’s pleas that what they were holding was simply glaze from his delicious Krspy Kreme doughnut, the officers came to the conclusion that it was meth instead. So, they arrested Rushing, strip-searched him, held him for 10 hours and charged him with meth possession.
It’s unknown what roadside tests the officers used, but it turned out they were way off and should have listened to Rushing because it was in fact doughnut glaze. Even sadder than that misidentification? You guessed it: It took a Florida Department of Law Enforcement crime lab several weeks to figure that out.
