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A man who claims a police officer planted drugs on him saw the charges dismissed one day before his case went to trial, according to a Channel 2 Action News report, also reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
But the DeKalb County Solicitor General’s Office said the dismissal has nothing to do with a surveillance video Alphoo Eleby said proves he was set up by a police officer.
Eleby said his ordeal began in July 2012 at a Chevron gas station. He stopped to speak to someone sitting in a black SUV when an officer said he smelled marijuana and arrested the driver on charges of marijuana possession with intent to distribute.
“I was searched twice,” Eleby said. He said no drugs were found on him and he was told to sit down. An officer stood guard over him for several minutes and Eleby said he never moved.
As one officer searches the vehicle, the video shows the inti officer circle back to her client and toss marijuana next to him, attorney Zenobia Waters told Channel 2. Waters said the officer then picks the drugs up and repositions them. “And then he stands up and yells, ‘Look what you tried to throw,’” Eleby said.
The video shows Eleby protesting what he sees the officer do and the officer then puts him in a choke-hold while other officers look on.
I’m passing along this story from Atlanta. They’re still planting drugs on people to get arrests.
I’ve been threatened with “lose the attitude or were going to find something in the car” by a cop, suggesting he may plant something. Disgusting, despicable and very unprofessional. They are all like that, chip on the shoulder and massively inflated ego.
He’ll be arrested again within the year.
You mean the pig, right?
LOL,
COMMON,
FINALLY SOME GOOD OL’ POLICE CORRUPTION AND GUESS WHAT YOUR BLAMING THE VICTIM. LOL, THIS PIG SHOULD BE CHARGED AND PROSECUTED TO THE HIGHEST EXTENT OF THE LAW……….DON’T YOU AGREE?
OR DON’T THE RULES APPLY TO YOU AND YOUR FELLOW NAZI’S IN BLUE?
LET’S SEE HOW YOU REALLY FEEL BUDDY, I MEAN WHAT DO YOU THINK SHOULD BE DONE IN THIS CASE?
IN MY PERSONAL OPINION; THIS PIG SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR FALSIFYING EVIDENCE, ILLEGAL AND FALSE ARREST, PERJURY, FILING A FALSE POLICE REPORT, CONDUCT UNBECOMING A PEACE OFFICER, CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, HE SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO PAY ALL DAMAGES INCLUDING COURT COSTS OF THE INNOCENT MAN, HE SHOULD BE FIRED AND NEVER ALLOWED TO DO POLICE WORK AGAIN AND DO A SMALL AMOUNT OF TIME IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. DON’T YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE FAIR AND SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO ANY OTHER WOULD BE CRIMINAL AND LIAR WITH A BADGE THAT THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
I MEAN THAT THIS PIG TRIED TO RUIN A MANS LIFE FOR NO REASON, AND IN DOING SO SHOULD PAY WITH HIS OWN LIFE BEING RUINED.
IF WE DID THIS MORE OFTEN THE POLICE WOULD FINALLY GET BACK THE RESPECT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN MISSING FOR SO LONG NOW.
Maybe…maybe not.
@common, The guy might be arrested for murder in the next week…doesn’t matter. In this instance, an officer attempted to frame an innocent man. That’s a serious situation and it shouldn’t be taken lightly. Personally I feel there should be consequences for the officer,
in addition to the “charges dropped”.
@ BluEyeDevil
IF YOU POST YOUR WHOLE RESPONSE WITH CAPS-LOCK ON, IT MAKES IT VERY ANNOYING TO READ. I WILL SKIP OVER AND NOT READ YOUR FUTURE POSTS THAT ARE IN THIS STYLE.
FAZENDA,
I ALWAYS WRITE IN CAPS, SORRY YOU ARE OFFENDED BY MY CAPITALIZATION, GROW A SAC PAL. HOPEFULLY YOU LEARN TO HAVE A LITTLE THICKER SKIN. I GOT TO GIVE IT TO T. AND COMMON, EVEN THOUGH THEY GET PAID TO TROLL THIS FORUM, THEY HAVE STEEL SKIN, LOL AND AS FAR AS YOU NOT READING MY POST, SO WHAT.
For every one incident like this that gets reported, how many hundred don’t?
End the “war on drugs”
Where is the video?
The charges were dropped because, “the weed couldn’t be produced as evidence.” WTF? What does that say about their ability to do something so fundamental as handle evidence, then? What is this, the Keystone fuckin’ Cops?
Props for chutzpah, though: what other department would admit that they’re so stupid that they can’t track evidence?
He’s a drug dealer with a record. There wasn’t enough evidence to convict him so the charges were dropped. He was lucky this time but he will eventually get caught.
@Slappy
I’d love the video, but did you miss the NYC Narc situation? It isn’t exactly unknown for cops to do this.
Ive lived in South Africa for many years and have located in Rwanda, Bosnia, Sierra Leone and Egypt even then in those countries the corruption was out in the open. Relocated to the USA I have seen so much worse as people let these thugs invade their lives through ignorance! Police here think they have the upper hand, wrong! In the aforementioned countries people are terrorized every day! I would think America would be more civilized
weed could’nt be found because officer planted it on someone else