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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: DCPatriot on November 25, 2013, 01:11:41 pm

Title: Driver Arrested in Ohio for Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing
Post by: DCPatriot on November 25, 2013, 01:11:41 pm

Driver Arrested in Ohio for Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing
Scott Shackford

(http://cloudfront-media.reason.com/mc/_external/2013_11/whats-in-that-cylindrical-cont.jpg?h=188&w=250)


Norman Gurley, 30, is facing drug-related charges in Lorain County, Ohio, despite the fact that state troopers did not actually find any drugs in his possession.

Ohio passed a law in 2012 making it a felony to alter a vehicle to add a secret compartment with the “intent” of using it to conceal drugs for trafficking.

Gurley is the first actual person arrested under the law. WKYC in Northeast Ohio covered the arrest, with no notable journalistic skepticism whatsoever:

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Title: Re: Driver Arrested in Ohio for Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing
Post by: DCPatriot on November 25, 2013, 01:12:59 pm

Seems the compartment may have emitted the scent of drugs....so they arrested him for past 'crimes'.

Title: Re: Driver Arrested in Ohio for Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing
Post by: olde north church on November 25, 2013, 01:46:37 pm

Hey, remember, it's not first time, just the first time he got caught.