An Inteligent Criminal?

[Gregory Matthews]

The following is taken from an article in THE DENVER POST today and TV news reports yesterday and today:

Jonathan Potzler telephoned the Ft. Morgan (Colorado) police to request their help in removing a woman who he said was sitting in a 2015 Nissan Versa, and refused to leave the car.  He identified himself as being in the parking lot of a Walmart in Arizona.   This interested the police as their data indicated that he was in a Walmart parking lot located in Ft. Morgan.

In responding to the call for help, the police located the car and it did have a female in it who identified herself as being a relative of Jonathan!

At that point, the police instituted a search of the vehicle and its contents.  Inside the luggage the police found some $700,000 worth of crystal meth!

Both persons are now in jail.

 

 

Edited July 15, 2015 by Gregory Matthews

[Ted]

What was the basis of the search?  Chances are it'll be thrown out of court if it wasn't a consent search.  The trunk is off-limits for a search, unless it's a consent search. There doesn't appear to be an arrest to justify a Search Incident to Arrest (SIA) or exigent circumstances.

Consent = "May I search your vehicle" and you've given away the protection of the Fourth Amendment.

[Outta Here]

According to the Fort Morgan Times: "When police responded to the call at 1:43 p.m. Saturday in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Fort Morgan, they both found Potzler and Elguezabal with evidence of methamphetimine at the scene. So they arrested the pair and got a search warrant for the rental 2015 Nissan Versa they were driving, according to the city."

[Gregory Matthews]

Yes.  Those police were not going to blow the case by a judicial finding of an illegal search.

 

[phkrause]

Obviously not very intelligent!!

[Gerr]

Many criminals are probably mentally challenged, but some are pretty smart, e.g. - Ted Kaczinsky (sp) or El Chapo.