{"id":1037,"date":"2007-06-04T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T10:47:20","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"News:  Seatbelt checkpoint leads to seizure of marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statejournal.com\/story.cfm?func=viewstory&amp;storyid=24654\">article<\/a> from Charleston, WV, with accompanying video from local TV news, a pizza delivery driver was stopped for no seatbelt at a seatbelt checkpoint and marijuana was found.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Putam County man was arrested after city police said they found more than two pounds of marijuana his car during a seatbelt checkpoint. <\/p>\n<p>Roger Lee Caldwell, 25, was arrested in Friday when police said they discovered the marijuana inside several pizza delivery bags, according to a release from the department. <\/p>\n<p>Caldwell worked as a pizza delivery employee for a local pizza establishment, but police did not say which one. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently a search incident to a seatbelt violation is permissible in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>In the e-mail that brought this to my attention, the correspondent tells me that he came upon a seatbelt checkpoint at night on a bicycle, and the officers were wearing nightvision goggles and said they used to them see into the cars in the dark as the cars passed by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1037\">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-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}