GA - Cops' I-16 road ruse becomes shortcut to jail

Cops' I-16 road ruse becomes shortcut to jail

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After all, as 74 of them did over a two-day span, they’d just chauffeured themselves to arrest.
“When you’re had, you’re had,” was how Twiggs sheriff’s Chief Deputy Billy Boney put it. Boney, a veteran highway patrolman, oversaw the ruse that some dubbed “Operation Wrong Exit.”

Read more: http://www.macon.com/2011/03/27/1502741/when-youre-had-youre-had-how-a.html#ixzz1HuiXvFth

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After dark Friday, a late-model Audi eased up to the checkpoint. A man was driving. A woman was riding with him. She had to pee. Then she did. In her seat. Nerves. There was wee-wee in her seat and, wouldn’t you know, weed in her purse.

“Why,” an officer asked, “would you give me consent to search your purse if you knew you had marijuana in it?”

“Oh,” she said.

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