Georgia woman jailed after cops mistake candy floss for meth

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by Catherine Davis |
Commentator, Chief Editor, L&SS

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| November 29, 2018

Think this could never happen to you? Think again. You may think to yourself, "I don't sell cotton candy nor any other products on the streets, so there would be no way for me to be arrested for selling meth or some other illicit drug."

If the above description is you, you're in for a shock. Police tested this woman's cotton candy with a defective meter that read that it (the cotton candy) possessed an illicit drug. She was arrested and held in jail for three arduous months while she awaited a verdict based on the lab test of the blue cotton candy, which came back negative of drugs. This incident happened in Monroe County, Georgia; however there have been similar cases across the US.

Naturally, the innocent woman was furious and wants justice for the false arrest and imprisonment. So, she is suing the police department that arrested her and the company that manufactured the drug-testing equipment that gave a false drug reading for her. Read, below, how this equipment routinely failed to record true readings on many sorts of items such as, according to a list compiled by the Washington Post, roadside tests have labelled cookies, mints, deodorant, and tea, among other harmless materials, as drugs. :

A 2016 ProPublica investigation found that cheap roadside drug tests "routinely produce false positives" that result tens of thousands of Americans being wrongfully jailed.

Georgia woman jailed after cops mistake candy floss for meth https://t.co/vtAgZ0is2t
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 29, 2018

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How a $2 Roadside Drug Test Sends Innocent People to Jail https://t.co/fLNlPOdw0M Routinely produce false positive, yet police still use.
— Sharda Sekaran (@ssekaran) July 11, 2016

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