The two erroneous results (dog, field test) were negated three weeks later when the drug lab determined the honey wasn't actually methamphetamines. Incapable of thinking for themselves, they let a dog and a packet of iffy chemicals declare Haughton to be a drug dealer carrying a large amount of liquid drugs. Having been wrong once, Customs agents decided to be wrong twice. The drug dog was also unable to differentiate between honey and drugs. This time he was greeted by Customs and a drug dog. He often picks up honey from Jamaica during his frequent visits and brings some back for friends and family members. He's a legal permanent resident of the US.
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Leon Haughton is a Jamaican man with a green card. The bottles with gold-coloured screw tops labelled “honey” in his bag, they told him, had tested positive in a drug field test for methamphetamine. (h/t Jeff Bonner)Īfter landing at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on 29 December at around 10pm, US Customs and Border Protection detained Haughton for more than two hours before Maryland Transportation Authority Police put him in handcuffs, according to charging documents. A legal resident of the US spent three months in jail because the field test couldn't differentiate between a product created by bees and a product created by amateur chemists in a trailer park bathtub. If you're looking to boost your drug war stats, nothing's more useful than a cheap kit that can't tell the difference between narcotics and common household items.Īdding to the pathetic annals of cops upending people's lives with unreliable tests is this new twist: they're using these at ports-of-entry as well.
I mean, to the extent that they'll more reliably generate the "probable cause" needed to search a car or arrest a person. that comes with it.įield drug tests are more "reliable" than drug dogs. But it does matter to the non-criminals being treated like criminals because the ultra-faulty tests are even worse than K-9s at detecting actual drugs.įield drug tests have determined everything from cotton candy to donut crumbs to drywall dust to bird poop (on the hood of a car no less!) to be illegal substances, resulting in a cascade of horrors on the innocent, starting with the arrest and criminal charges, and proceeding directly to indefinite pretrial detention and the loss of income, housing, etc. This doesn't matter to the government, which is only out ~$2. Another field drug test has managed to misidentify a common legal substance.
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