Attractive Undercover Cop Poses As Student And Entraps Teens To "Sell" Her Marijuana

[abowsh]

Working at the Drug Policy Alliance for the last twelve years I have read and heard countless stories of people having their lives ruined because of our country's cruel war on drugs. Last weekend, the nationally syndicated show This American Life highlighted a story that is so insane, you don't know whether to laugh or puke.

Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers posed as students. The undercover cops went to classes, became Facebook friends and flirted with the other students. One 18-year-old honor student named Justin fell in love with an attractive 25-year-old undercover cop after spending weeks sharing stories about their lives, texting and flirting with each other.

One day she asked Justin if he smoked pot. Even though he didn't smoke marijuana, the love-struck teen promised to help find some for her. Every couple of days she would text him asking if he had the marijuana. Finally, Justin was able to get it to her. She tried to give him $25 for the marijuana and he said he didn't want the money -- he got it for her as a present.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-newman/attractive-undercover-cop_b_1277330.html

Disgusting...

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Disgusting is right!

[truebrit71]

2. So in order to justify their existence they have to engineer the crimes..

...this isn't entrapment, HOW exactly?

[Blue Owl]

3. How could this happen, right here in the land of privatized prisons?

[KansDem]

4. How could Justin be arrested for "selling" cannabis when he refused the money?

[rgbecker]

5. Well, at least they aren't just going after Muslims.

In America its equal justice for all.

[Robb]

6. So high school narcs really *are* good-looking?

[LeftinOH]

8. Keep your eye on that Grieco fellow, he's gonna be a BIG star someday.. n/t

[LeftinOH]

7. She effectively seduced a teenager into getting weed for her...

..then she busted him. After spending "weeks sharing stories about their lives, texting and flirting wth each other."

I can't help but feel really REALLY sorry for that kid -for the emotional damage this wretched woman has likely done to him- and for the stigma that this pot bust will have on his educational and employment chances.

[abowsh]

11. That kid is going to have trust issues with women

I know I would if I were him. I would find it difficult to trust people after experiencing something like this at such a young age.

[Snake Alchemist]

9. I always wanted to be on 21 Jump Street!!!! nt

[renie408]

10. I heard this on NPR last week and it REALLY pissed me off. This was an honor student

with his whole life ahead of him.

It is now down to 'he said/she said'. She claims that she did not coerce him and that he never refused the money. He claims...well, what the article says. The whole thing is just STUPID. He had no record before this and had never even been in trouble in school, I think is what I remember. He was trying to get into the Air Force and now cannot even get into any branch of the armed service. So in their efforts to do whatever it was they were trying to do, they have managed to make it MUCH more likely that he will resort to real crime at some point.

Way to go, Florida cops!!

[1monster]

19. I' take his word over hers ANY day. I have been told by two prosecutors,

one just last month, that LEOs lie all the time and that the prosecutors are fine with that if it helps them get a conviction. And that is all legal due to Supreme Court rulings.

Although how perjury is legal is beyond me. And conspiracy to deny suspects their Constitutional rights is breaking the Supreme Laws of our country doesn't sound legal either.

Our whole justice system is so corrupt that shining the sunlight on it would cause it to crumble into dust.

[lurky]

12. I'd like to know how much this operation cost.

Creating false identities for multiple undercover agents. Spending weeks infiltrating schools and building trust. Coordination, backup, communication. How many tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars did they spend to entrap a bunch of teenagers into nickelbag arrests? Is the crime rate in Florida so low that this is the best way to allocate their resources?

[ProfessorGAC]

20. +1

That's what i thought. What possible cost/benefit scenario justifies this?

[marlakay]

13. I got really angry when i first heard this last week

still angry….that kid didn't even want to do it, the girl basically took a boy at his sexual peak time and flirted with him and for all we know had sex with him and when she kept asking and asking of course he gave some to her and for free, he wasn't selling, he wasn't using…I have come to hate the DEA!!!

They are not helping!!!!!!!!!

They need to get away from pot totally and concentrate on higher end drugs only….

[Mariana]

18. She's not a girl.

She's a grown, adult woman of 25. I think most 25 year old women could manipulate an 18 year old male into doing just about anything. I know I could have.

She should spend the rest of her life wracked with guilt for this. Most likely, though, she's proud of what she did.

[Initech]

14. How is this not illegal search and seizure?

[white_wolf]

15. And this is why so many people hate cops.

Protect and serve, yeah right. Protect and serve the ruling class is about all they do. Seriously, how do they justify this kind of shit? They were the ones who convinced the guy to break the law, did he have a history of selling drugs? If so, why did they have to trick him like this? This is such bullshit.

[Johonny]

16. +1

This story and operation doesn't really help the police do there job anywhere. Bad police and police operations do a lot of harm.

[Matariki]

17. "How do these cops look themselves in the mirror?"

Damn straight.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Better Question Still. . .

. . .who authorized this "sting"? That actually has to be someone in charge, unless these U/C cops went rogue.

[Matariki]

24. +1

[frogmarch]

22. Outrageous! The undercover

cop should be brought up on solicitation charges.

[Cleita]

23. This has been done for decades.

One of my neighbors, when I lived in LA, a cop, was put undercover in one of the high schools for just that reason. He looked very young so that's why he got the assignment. However, he didn't date any of the girls and would probably have considered it as crossing the line. However, his target wasn't the students but the suppliers and they caught them. The suppliers were gang bangers that were not students, but using some of the students to deal in the high school.

[Taitertots]

25. So now the secret police are doing mass arrests for minor offenses

Legal or not, how can the government justify such egregious abuses against the citizenry.

Whats next, tricking people into being friends and asking for a ride with the intention of giving them tickets for driving infractions?