How can someone get charged with drug trafficking when they was nowhere near the drugs or crime scene
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How can someone get charged with drug trafficking when they was nowhere near the drugs or crime scene
My friend let his girlfriend
borrow his car and she got pulled
over an they found drugs in his
car and I guess she said that the
drugs wasn’t hers so they went to
his house and arrested him for it.
How is this legal
Asked on January 19, 2017 under Criminal Law, Ohio
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
It's legal because there is some reason to think--some "probable cause" to believe--that the drugs were his. You don't need to be near an item or object to own it, after all; your cell phone is still your cell phone if you lend it to someone else or leave it behind at work by mistake. In this case, the drugs were in his car and the person who was driving the car claimed they did not belong to her; those two facts together provide probable cause, or a basis, to arrest him.
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