Innocent Couple Locked in a Cage for Months Because Cops Mistook Baking Soda for Cocaine
Matt Agorist
TheFreethoughtProject.com
November 19, 2016
Fort Chaffe, AR — On May 8 of this year, Gale Griffin and her husband Wendall Harvey, who’ve been driving trucks together for the last seven years, were targeted by public servants whose job it is to seek out arbitrary substances deemed illegal by the state. While it is certainly bad enough that the state kidnaps, cages, and kills people for ingesting a substance that makes them happy — they are often dead wrong — and innocent people suffer at the hands of police incompetence. After being falsely accused of possessing cocaine, Griffin and Harvey are living proof that the war on drugs lays waste to any and all lives, not just those who use drugs.
In May, Griffin and Harvey were on a delivery. The couple has a security clearance and has been delivering explosive ingredients since 2009. However, they were targeted by incompetent cops who used criminally ineffective drug test kits on a white powdery substance found inside the couple’s truck.
The kit identified the substance as cocaine. But it was not cocaine. It was baking soda Griffin used for stomach problems.
“I use baking soda for everything,” said Griffin.
“When you start talking about a schedule one controlled substance, your talking about a major case,” Fort Chaffee Police Chief Chuck Bowen said of the case in May, apparently ecstatic that his officers had found a couple with some cocaine.
The police at Fort Chaffee thought they had caught themselves two dangerous cocaine traffickers with 13 ounces of fine white powder.
“I saw the guy hand out a bag of baking soda outside the driver’s door, and I told him that’s just baking soda, and I think that’s when it started,” said Harvey.
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