Well ive been a smoker for quite a long time,my parents dont mind so I usually smoke at my house. So one day I was with two friends and we went to go pick up a half 8th,after we do the driver wants to go smoke at a park...I said no we can go smoke at my house,where its safe..but no. Well he pulled up behind a shopping mall and started smoking in the car which I said was a dumb idea,but him and the kid in the back seat insisted. I could have just walked out and left, I mean ive heard that from everyone..but I was faaar from home,and my sister was working and couldnt pick me up,and neither could my parents cause they were at a santana show a hour or so away. So as they are smoking...bam..a cop pulls up behind us so we cant back out and leave,we stash the weed and just wait for him to come to the window. When he came to the window he def smelled the weed, and said hand it over,if its a little bit it will be nothing (keep in mind we had a little over 1 gram). So my friend gives him the weed in the center console without hesitation and the cop asks if there is any more..I happend to remember there was some under my seat so I gave it up. He had us get out and searches the car to find nothing else,then comes up and puts cuffs on the driver and I,the kid in the back got off the hook because there wasnt weed in the back seat..which upsets me but what was I gonna do. So we went along with the cops and were nice thinking maybe they would let us off the hook,but we were wrong. When we showed up at the station the cop was giving other cops high fives and getting the "good job on the bust" from other cops....I was so disgusted,I cant even explain it. Well now its been about a year since the arrest,the driver who was 18 at the time got off with just having to take a class and they will drop the charges and take the arrest off his record..as for me,because of the fact I was underage (so says the public defender) I get harsher punishment. They tried giving me two years of probation,and 2 years without driving..I got it worked down to basicly 6 months of probation but im still very unpleased. I start it tomorrow and im not looking forward to it,but I gotta just bite the bullet and keep on truckin'. The whole situation has really changed my view on cops (not all of them). I talked to another cop about it from the city im in and he said that where I stay at they would have never arrested us for that little amount,it was only because we happend to be in the richer city south of us where he said they were low on their arrest's. I also know someone with 2 prior felonys and got caught selling 10 grams to a undercover and only got 3 months of probation. All in all I really feel like shit after all of it,it bothers me every day but it will be done with eventually.
in the suburbs all the cops have to worry about is pot and traffic problems. in citie they have to worry about crack, heroin, murders, thefts, robberies. all that shit
Dang dude, sorry to hear. I just started my 6 months probation and 60 hrs of community service, it's not all that bad! Just tough it up for a bit and it'll be fine! Good luck!
Sounds like you drew the short straw one that one, big time! Just work through it. And I wouldn't worry about the criminal record, its hardly like you've committed man slaughter!
