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Author Topic: The logistics of intercepting garbage for evidence  (Read 206 times)

stupidnoob

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Re: The logistics of intercepting garbage for evidence
« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2010, 02:44:40 AM »
My father knows a local police officer in his town, (very small town btw) and was recently informed that a meth lab was busted due to evidence gathered in trash, and that they went around with two garbage trucks that day, with one being special for targeting people involved. Another friend of mine was raided and subsequently charged for manufacturing because she left her trash in the same bag as something with her name on it. Poor girl is serving some real time now.

geezmeister

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Re: The logistics of intercepting garbage for evidence
« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2010, 07:42:33 PM »
Discarding incriminating items in trash along with something that has your name on it presents the logical inference that the person whose name was in that bag knew the other stuff was in there as well. It is an inference, though, and nothing more. That inference is insufficient to convict without additional evidence. I suspect the gal who is doing time had a lawyer who needed more balls with a jury or with the DA. I have seen cases with more evidence than the that dismissed for a lack of evidence of dominion and control over the contraband.

A cop who knows what is doing will use the stuff in a trash can to get a warrant to search the residence, and evidence found in such a search is usually one hell of a lot more damning that something in the trash.
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