How an Attractive, Undercover Cop Posed as a Student -- Then Entrapped a Smitten Teen

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After spending weeks sharing stories about his life, texting and flirting, one 18-year-old honor student fell in love with the cop who busted him.
February 15, 2012

Working at the Drug Policy Alliance for the last twelve years I have read and heard countless stories of people having their lives ruined because of our country's cruel war on drugs. Last weekend, the nationally syndicated show This American Life highlighted a story that is so insane, you don't know whether to laugh or puke.

Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers posed as students. The undercover cops went to classes, became Facebook friends and flirted with the other students. One 18-year-old honor student named Justin fell in love with an attractive 25-year-old undercover cop after spending weeks sharing stories about their lives, texting and flirting with each other.

One day she asked Justin if he smoked pot. Even though he didn't smoke marijuana, the love-struck teen promised to help find some for her. Every couple of days she would text him asking if he had the marijuana. Finally, Justin was able to get it to her. She tried to give him $25 for the marijuana and he said he didn't want the money -- he got it for her as a present.

A short while later, the police did a big sweep and arrest 31 students -- including Justin. Almost all were charged with selling a small amount of marijuana to the undercover cops. Now Justin has a felony hanging over his head.
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it's entrapment if this is an accurate account. Justin wouldn't have broken the law without interference by the undercover, as the story is written. Either the story is inaccurate or it's entrapment (I'm guessing the former)...

Entrapment isn't usually applicable in drug cases like these because it can be shown that the defendant was willing to commit the crime without police influence. This is not the case here.
 
This story is not unique to Florida and it reminds me of an 18-year-old Mitchell Lawrence, a young man from Great Barrington, Mass., who served two years in jail for selling a joint to an undercover cop. The officer befriended Lawrence and his friends and would hang out with them. One day the cop asked if Lawrence had any weed. Lawrence gave the cop a joint. The cop handed him $20. Lawrence hesitated, but the cop insisted on giving him the money. "Selling" the joint, because they were hanging out less than a 1000 feet from a school, and thus was considered a "drug free school zone," carried a mandatory minimum two-year sentence.
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I would say that these cops should go to jail, but the real problem is with the system that encourages (and forces) them to trap people.
 
The governments plan is to ruin as many kids lives as possible no matter how they do it, just get the job done. They want the streets filled with kids that cant get jobs because of their felony records. Imo, its all a set up to screw up this country on purpose.

By the way, Justin should have banged her before giving her the weed.........lets see how far those pigs would go to get an arrest.
 
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Yeah, this is fucked up..... The kid didn't even use marijuana and was an honors student, wtf. How did they feel it was necessary to ruin this kids life? I would find a good attorney asap.
 
if that had happened to me at 18, I don't think i'd be able to hold down a decent relationship at all, trust would be right out the window with every mofucker!
 
jazz hands said:
it's entrapment if this is an accurate account. Justin wouldn't have broken the law without interference by the undercover, as the story is written. Either the story is inaccurate or it's entrapment (I'm guessing the former)...

Entrapment isn't usually applicable in drug cases like these because it can be shown that the defendant was willing to commit the crime without police influence. This is not the case here.
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Hopefully this kid gets a good lawyer because jazz hands is exactly right.

Fucking Pigs.
 
I'm pretty sure entrapment is permissible in Florida. I've seen undercover cops pose as drug dealers in Overtown and literally shove coke in people's faces, whether or not those people were asking to buy something. And when the money comes out, they slap the cuffs on without missing a beat.
 
Lets try to encourage the young population to stay in school and get an education to better their lives;
that way there's more innocent victims for easy picking for the drug cops to set up situations like this...

I guess that's their logic?
that way the gov't makes money on student loans; the police make money on drug arrests; the police get additional funding from the DEA for increased drug arrests, the DEA gets additional money because they can claim they are still fighting the war and have new stats to show about how many students they arrested...

meanwhile america's youth gets fucked; then the prisons make money... vicious cycle
 
mgrady3 said:
Lets try to encourage the young population to stay in school and get an education to better their lives;
that way there's more innocent victims for easy picking for the drug cops to set up situations like this...

I guess that's their logic?
that way the gov't makes money on student loans; the police make money on drug arrests; the police get additional funding from the DEA for increased drug arrests, the DEA gets additional money because they can claim they are still fighting the war and have new stats to show about how many students they arrested...

meanwhile america's youth gets fucked; then the prisons make money... vicious cycle
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Exactly...........the reason they are setting these kids up is to show everyone that the drug "epidemic" is still in full force& the DEA still gets their funding. Like mentioned, its a vicious cycle with lots of people getting arrested that shouldnt be.
 
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