{"id":6501,"date":"2012-01-04T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:22:27","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6501","title":{"rendered":"NJ.com: &#8220;In futile car search for drugs, Pompton Lakes police inflict $12K worth of damage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NJ.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2011\/12\/in_futile_car_search_for_drugs.html\">In futile car search for drugs, Pompton Lakes police inflict $12K worth of damage<\/a> by James Queally\/The Star-Ledger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Pompton Lakes police seized Darren Richardson\u2019s car on a rainy September afternoon, they told him it was headed for an impound lot. When they returned it three weeks later, he says, the 2004 BMW belonged in a junk yard.<\/p>\n<p>The instrument cluster and leather dashboard were gone. The caramel-colored seats were torn up. The gear shift was ripped out and stray wires hung limp everywhere. Geico, Richardson\u2019s insurance company estimated the damage at $12,636.42 \u2014 more than he paid for the car \u2014 and declared the vehicle a &#8220;total loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to police reports, the damage to the black BMW 325i came in the aftermath of a traffic stop during which officers detected a &#8220;strong odor of raw marijuana&#8221; inside the vehicle. Searching for a cache of drugs, members of three different police agencies and a detective from a federal drug task force spent two days tearing the car apart, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p>So what did police find after their $12,000 search? <\/p>\n<p>Absolutely nothing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}