Lawyer’s hear all kinds of stories but when the client of defense attorneys Daniel Cahill and J Julio Vela came looking for representation they finally heard one that they just had to look into.
It turns out that their client Nicholas Hill was relaxing in his apartment with a friend when the police came knocking because someone had complained about smelling drugs. While searching the apartment the police came upon a plate of pot brownies and instead of confiscating them for evidence they ate them.
Now one would think that after doing this the officers involved would be kind of hush hush about the whole thing, well, think again. It seems that they couldn’t help themselves and started typing messages to each other via their in-car computers.
The city saves all those and we have them:
At 2:44 in the morning one officer — we aren’t naming them — writes the other, “So HIGH…Good munchies”
The other writes back, “Everything should be open when we get done.”
First officer: “Two hours, max.”
“Probably, but this will take the whole shift.”
“If they actually are true, then we’re talking about is destruction of evidence. That’s a felony. We’re talking about official misconduct. We’re potentially talking about police offices driving around the city of Houston high on drugs, conducting official police business while high on drugs. It’s a pretty big deal,” Cahill said.
The head of the internal affairs division knew about this before we called and told us it’s considered a big deal inside the department. The officers involved are still on the job but will be drug tested and investigated.
via ABC
