Top Cop Smokes Pot - Page 2

BIG_DADDY · 10-08-2004, 03:07 PM

Thursday, October 07, 2004

The best place to get high in town may have been the police station.

Cops in the small eastern Pennsylvania town of Weatherly (search) had been complaining for months about the smell of marijuana smoke in the office, the pot pipes lying around, the seized drugs that disappeared.

On Wednesday, their chief of 10 years, Brian S. Cara (search), was arrested by state troopers, reports The Morning Call of Allentown.

"I was really shocked to find out everything he was supposed to have done," Weatherly Mayor Joseph E. D'Andrea told the newspaper. "If he has had problems and needed help, we could have helped him."

The borough of 2,600 people, about midway between Wilkes-Barre and Allentown, has three full-time and six part-time police officers.

Cara, 38, did not immediately return a phone message left at his home.

State Attorney General Jerry Pappert said the probe started in Sept. 2003 when Weatherly cops told state authorities suspicious things had been disappearing for months.

There were the plastic envelopes of cocaine that mysteriously "exploded" after having been placed in the evidence locker — an unlocked drawer.

There were the times when cops showed up unexpectedly at the station only to find Cara there alone and the place reeking of pot smoke.

There were the joints and pot pipes cops noticed in Cara's desk drawer.

Finally, a "reverse sting" was set up this summer. On Aug. 2, one of Weatherly's officers told Cara that two ounces of pot had been seized and were in the office.

Also new to the office was a hidden video camera.

State drug agents told a grand jury they watched Cara smoke some of the pot later that same day, then go back for more no less than eight times on Aug. 3. All of it was caught on videotape.

On Aug. 4, it all came down. Cara was seen smoking pot five times before 9:15 a.m. Then he packed a pipe, tucked it into his pocket and went out on patrol.

Later that day, state agents with a warrant searched his desk and found drugs and drug paraphernalia.

Cara was made to undergo a blood test, which came back positive for marijuana, and he allegedly admitted smoking pot from the evidence locker.

He was immediately placed on paid suspension, but the paychecks may end following his formal arrest.

"We're not his judge and jury, but we can't continue paying him and filling in for him at his salary," D'Andrea said.

Cara was charged with four misdemeanors: obstructing justice, criminal attempt to obstruct justice, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was booked and released on his own recognizance. His first preliminary hearing was scheduled for Nov. 17.

BigChiefFan · 10-08-2004, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ENDelt260

PE made "911 is a joke" Tho, perhaps you're thinking of NWA's "fuck Tha Police"

I was thinking fight the power, but NWA's song is probably more appropriate.

Fairplay · 10-08-2004, 03:52 PM

[QUOTE=KcMizzou]The only thing I've experienced that was close to this was cops taking our beer when I was in HS. They'd let us go, but they seized the beer.. and drank it themselves at their cop parties.

[/QUOTE]

I've known a few cops that admited that they would take the beer from underage kids from them all the time. And they were bitchin as well about how the kids always have cheap beer at the parties on top of it. Cops takeing drugs? I wouldn't doubt they do it all the time. And if there is a bust some probably take a portion of it and turn the rest in. Its all a racket.

Fairplay · 10-08-2004, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by ENDelt260

While we're on the subject of cops being dishonest... I'd like to make a PSA....

Folks, when you find yourself interacting with a police officer, and he says, "Now, no one's going to get in trouble here..." HE'S LYING. For the love of God, DON'T give him the answer he wants to whatever follows that statement. Why is this so hard for some people to figure out?

You find that amusing as well. When people get arrested. You are givein these rights........
You have a constitutional right to remain silent. This is a very important right and you cannot be punished for remaining silent or have your silence used against you. Constitutional rights can be waived (given up). Before you say or sign anything, the decision should be carefully made. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. If you do answer a question, you may stop at any time and not answer any further questions. You have a right to talk with an attorney before answering any questions.

On "COPS" and or the shows of the like the cops will issue these rights then ask (persude) the victem to talk. I would say nothing except i need to talk to an attorney, Period. Why don't people understand this?

Hydrae · 10-08-2004, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ENDelt260

I don't so much find it amusing as frustrating. I think people that believe a single word that comes out of a cop's mouth are slap on the forehead, Gomer Pyle stupid. I'm always concerned someone in the group of people I'm with is "that guy".

Thankfully I'm not involved in many illegal activites anymore. But, every once in awhile I hear a story that just leaves me thinking, "WTF? Why the fuck did you answer?"

On a tangentially related story of stupidity and the law.... a few weeks back I met a girl who had an extreme DUI. I know a think or two on the subject, as I myself got popped with an extreme a couple years ago. She's telling me about some of the punishments she's gone through, and it becomes apparent that she just went to court, plead guilty, and took all the standard minimums. I was shocked. "Why the fuck didn't you hire a lawyer?" "A lawyer wouldn't be able to do anything for me." I then proceeded to tell her my story... which included committed the EXACT SAME CRIME as her, but receiving far fewer punishments, thanks to my lawyer. This dumb broad didn't even talk to a lawyer... choosing instead to just listen to the advice of some equally dumbfuck friend of hers, and get ass-raped by the state of Arizona. Sheezus... every freakin' lawyer with a big gaudy DUI ad in the yellow pages has free consultations. They're not gonna paint you some rosey unrealistic picture of what they can do for ya just to grab your cash. They're lawyers.. it's a doctorate in CYA. I think I heard the phrase "Now, I can't guarantee anything" more times in my one hour visit with the lawyer than I had in the 21 years of my life leading up to that meeting.

Sorry.. now I'm just rambling. Jesus, what a dumb broad, tho. Man, she looked really pissed as the realization set in that she didn't have to go through all the shit she did. It still makes me laugh.

So in the end, those with the money to hire a competent attorney will have a lighter punishment than some indigent SOB?

Sounds about the way our system works all right.

**Skip Towne** · 10-08-2004, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ENDelt260

I don't so much find it amusing as frustrating. I think people that believe a single word that comes out of a cop's mouth are slap on the forehead, Gomer Pyle stupid. I'm always concerned someone in the group of people I'm with is "that guy".

Thankfully I'm not involved in many illegal activites anymore. But, every once in awhile I hear a story that just leaves me thinking, "WTF? Why the fuck did you answer?"

On a tangentially related story of stupidity and the law.... a few weeks back I met a girl who had an extreme DUI. I know a think or two on the subject, as I myself got popped with an extreme a couple years ago. She's telling me about some of the punishments she's gone through, and it becomes apparent that she just went to court, plead guilty, and took all the standard minimums. I was shocked. "Why the fuck didn't you hire a lawyer?" "A lawyer wouldn't be able to do anything for me." I then proceeded to tell her my story... which included committed the EXACT SAME CRIME as her, but receiving far fewer punishments, thanks to my lawyer. This dumb broad didn't even talk to a lawyer... choosing instead to just listen to the advice of some equally dumbfuck friend of hers, and get ass-raped by the state of Arizona. Sheezus... every freakin' lawyer with a big gaudy DUI ad in the yellow pages has free consultations. They're not gonna paint you some rosey unrealistic picture of what they can do for ya just to grab your cash. They're lawyers.. it's a doctorate in CYA. I think I heard the phrase "Now, I can't guarantee anything" more times in my one hour visit with the lawyer than I had in the 21 years of my life leading up to that meeting.

Sorry.. now I'm just rambling. Jesus, what a dumb broad, tho. Man, she looked really pissed as the realization set in that she didn't have to go through all the shit she did. It still makes me laugh.

I, too, had an attorney say "I can't guarantee anything". I said sure you can, you can guarantee me you won't charge me if you don't get this done.

Calcountry · 10-08-2004, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Cannibal

The mutherfuggers are such hipocrites. So many of them arrest and abuse people for doing the same things they do.

So many of them drink and drive AND do drugs and then they act like jackboot aholes when they others for doing the same.

Prick c0cksuckers...

There are a lot of good cops as well.

2bikemike · 10-08-2004, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Fairplay

You find that amusing as well. When people get arrested. You are givein these rights........
You have a constitutional right to remain silent. This is a very important right and you cannot be punished for remaining silent or have your silence used against you. Constitutional rights can be waived (given up). Before you say or sign anything, the decision should be carefully made. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. If you do answer a question, you may stop at any time and not answer any further questions. You have a right to talk with an attorney before answering any questions.

On "COPS" and or the shows of the like the cops will issue these rights then ask (persude) the victem to talk. I would say nothing except i need to talk to an attorney, Period. Why don't people understand this?

My wife used to belong to a "Leads Group" (people who hang out and bring each other business) and there was an attorney in there who used to preach to the group weekly about "You have the right to remain silent. Excercise that right no matter what. The cops are not your friends." We tried to teach that to our kids. So far they have not had to excercise that right but hopefully they know better than to run their mouths.

Cannibal · 10-08-2004, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by bunnytrdr

There are a lot of good cops as well.

There a lot of ahole cops as well.

Calcountry · 10-08-2004, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ENDelt260

They're in the business of apprehending dishonest scum. You don't do that by being an honest, upfront good guy. You do that by being SMARTER dishonest scum.

You would be an expert on that.

Hel'n · 10-08-2004, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Cannibal

The mutherfuggers are such hipocrites. So many of them arrest and abuse people for doing the same things they do.

So many of them drink and drive AND do drugs and then they act like jackboot aholes when they others for doing the same.

Prick c0cksuckers...

Marijuana should be decriminalized... It is the height of hypocrisy... Just like Prohibition...

(No, I don't smoke it or do drugs... )

Calcountry · 10-08-2004, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ENDelt260

It doesn't take a genius to figure out.

No, just a dipshit like me.

Fairplay · 10-08-2004, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Hel'n

Marijuana should be decriminalized... It is the height of hypocrisy... Just like Prohibition...

(No, I don't smoke it or do drugs... )

Come'on admit it. Were all family here after all.

Hel'n · 10-08-2004, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Fairplay

Come'on admit it. Were all family here after all.

OK, I admit it... I'm one of those pollyannas with no experience with the drug culture...

But I do like lemondrops (the drink)...

**Skip Towne** · 10-08-2004, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ENDelt260

They're in the business of apprehending dishonest scum. You don't do that by being an honest, upfront good guy. You do that by being SMARTER dishonest scum.

I've found a big hole in your theory. You have cops being smarter than somebody. Can you prove that?

**alanm** · 10-08-2004, 07:46 PM

As a former Federal officer for the ***. All I can say is legalize it.
Busting people for marijuana is a major waste of taxpayer money. Legalize it and tax it. It would put a end to a lot of problems. Not to mention some organized crimes.

10-08-2004, 03:07 PM
BIG_DADDY THE RED MENACE Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Texas Casino cash: $2558410	Top Cop Smokes Pot Thursday, October 07, 2004 The best place to get high in town may have been the police station. Cops in the small eastern Pennsylvania town of Weatherly (search) had been complaining for months about the smell of marijuana smoke in the office, the pot pipes lying around, the seized drugs that disappeared. On Wednesday, their chief of 10 years, Brian S. Cara (search), was arrested by state troopers, reports The Morning Call of Allentown. "I was really shocked to find out everything he was supposed to have done," Weatherly Mayor Joseph E. D'Andrea told the newspaper. "If he has had problems and needed help, we could have helped him." The borough of 2,600 people, about midway between Wilkes-Barre and Allentown, has three full-time and six part-time police officers. Cara, 38, did not immediately return a phone message left at his home. State Attorney General Jerry Pappert said the probe started in Sept. 2003 when Weatherly cops told state authorities suspicious things had been disappearing for months. There were the plastic envelopes of cocaine that mysteriously "exploded" after having been placed in the evidence locker — an unlocked drawer. There were the times when cops showed up unexpectedly at the station only to find Cara there alone and the place reeking of pot smoke. There were the joints and pot pipes cops noticed in Cara's desk drawer. Finally, a "reverse sting" was set up this summer. On Aug. 2, one of Weatherly's officers told Cara that two ounces of pot had been seized and were in the office. Also new to the office was a hidden video camera. State drug agents told a grand jury they watched Cara smoke some of the pot later that same day, then go back for more no less than eight times on Aug. 3. All of it was caught on videotape. On Aug. 4, it all came down. Cara was seen smoking pot five times before 9:15 a.m. Then he packed a pipe, tucked it into his pocket and went out on patrol. Later that day, state agents with a warrant searched his desk and found drugs and drug paraphernalia. Cara was made to undergo a blood test, which came back positive for marijuana, and he allegedly admitted smoking pot from the evidence locker. He was immediately placed on paid suspension, but the paychecks may end following his formal arrest. "We're not his judge and jury, but we can't continue paying him and filling in for him at his salary," D'Andrea said. Cara was charged with four misdemeanors: obstructing justice, criminal attempt to obstruct justice, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was booked and released on his own recognizance. His first preliminary hearing was scheduled for Nov. 17.
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10-08-2004, 03:52 PM	#17
Fairplay A certain set of skills Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: texas Casino cash: $10026683 VARSITY	[QUOTE=KcMizzou]The only thing I've experienced that was close to this was cops taking our beer when I was in HS. They'd let us go, but they seized the beer.. and drank it themselves at their cop parties. [/QUOTE] I've known a few cops that admited that they would take the beer from underage kids from them all the time. And they were bitchin as well about how the kids always have cheap beer at the parties on top of it. Cops takeing drugs? I wouldn't doubt they do it all the time. And if there is a bust some probably take a portion of it and turn the rest in. Its all a racket.
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10-08-2004, 07:46 PM	#30
alanm Feeling Victorian Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Nebraska/Wyoming/Colorado Casino cash: $-113564	As a former Federal officer for the *. All I can say is legalize it. Busting people for marijuana is a major waste of taxpayer money. Legalize it and tax it. It would put a end to a lot of problems. Not to mention some organized crimes. __________________ It bears repeating, Herm, Pioli, Haley, and Crennel for ing up my franchise for a goddamn decade. Buehler 445**
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