If you’re trying to fool the cops, writing a note on your drug stash to try to dissuade them from looking inside the bag is probably not the way to do it.
And yet a traffic stop last week uncovered just such a unique carrying case.
San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputies pulled over a driver at 1:17 a.m. Thursday on Waterloo Road and E Street for driving without license plates on the car.
On the seat next to the man, who was not immediately identified, was a backpack that piqued deputies’ interest. The driver told them he had a “less-than-lethal” launcher of some sort in the pack.
Sure enough, there was a CO2-powered pistol, but it was the other contents of the bag that really caught the deputies’ attention – a bunch of narcotics, sheriff’s officials reported on social media.
But there was more.
The Sheriff’s Office said a sack inside the pack was labeled “definitely not a bag full of drugs.”
Turns out, there was no truth in that advertising.
Inside, deputies found – you guessed it – a bag full of drugs. Lots of them. The trove included ecstasy, methamphetamines, ketamine, Oxycodone, cocaine and LSD. There also were erectile disfunction tablets and vials of testosterone.
The man, who said the drugs were all for “self-medication,” was arrested on suspicion of possession of controlled substances for sale and other drug-related charges.
In a very tongue-in-cheek social media post, deputies pointed out that “labeling your stash ‘definitely not drugs’ does not make it legal.”