Man arrested for discussing drug deals after ass-dialing 911

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An Orange City man talking about selling drugs thought he was only conversing with two other people while driving a tow truck but his cellphone accidentally dialed 9-1-1 and dispatchers listened in, deputies said.

Matthew Dollarhide, 19, and his two passengers looked surprised when a deputy pulled him over and asked them why they were talking about selling drugs, an arrest report shows.

"Deputy Cranmer asked the three about why they were talking about selling drugs and they could not explain this," the deputy wrote in the report.

Deputies were first alerted at 9:42 p.m. Tuesday by dispatchers. Investigations revealed that Dollarhide had a cell phone in his pants pocket and did not know it had accidentally dialed 9-1-1.

According to reports, deputies were directed to Graves and North Volusia avenues in Orange City where dispatchers said the phone signal was coming from. Dispatchers could hear on the open 9-1-1 line the men talking about selling drugs.

The men were talking about how they were driving a tow truck and going home, mentioning the name "Harry" several times, deputies said.

That made it easy for deputies to spot the white tow truck with "Harry's Towing" written on the side at Volusia and Wisconsin avenues near Orange City.

After the traffic stop, Dollarhide and his two passengers were searched and a pipe used for smoking crack was found on Dollarhide, deputies said.

Dollarhide said the pipe belonged to his father but that he had taken it and put it in his pocket because he did not want the landlord to see his dad had drug paraphernalia in the home, deputies said.

Dollarhide was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, an arrest report shows.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/a...ested-for-discussing-drug-deals-in-9-1-1-call
 
What an impressive use of investigative skills! I'm sure glad they got that guy holding a stem off the street- WHEW! Whats more, that 19 year old guy will now effectively be screwed with a record- way to go, Deputy Cranmer, way to go.
 
Its probably good that they were caught imho

Good because it will just add to the amount of pointless arrests fueling the fact that there are millions of people who don't deserve to be arrested because of drug use.

Bad because this is a human beings life, and doesn't deserve to have multiple doors for his future to be closed.
 
^then he shouldnt have a crack pipe on him and those doors wouldnt be closed. its no ones fault but his own, its your choice in the end. no one forced him to put a crack pipe in his pocket.
 
^yeah, if only everyone stopped using drugs we wouldn't have all these problems anymore, right?
 
i understand that discussing selling drugs to 911 operators is very incriminating


but is it illegal?


nvm took the time to actually read the post, they had paraphinalia on em n were arrested for paraphinelia, makes sense. that sucks tho, im sure we've all pocket dialed people before this guy was just unfortunate enough to have dialled 911, thats tits
 
^then he shouldnt have a crack pipe on him and those doors wouldnt be closed. its no ones fault but his own, its your choice in the end. no one forced him to put a crack pipe in his pocket.

or if drugs were legal or decriminalised those doors wouldnt be closed

sure no one forced him to have a crack pipe, but no one forced the gov't to take away the liberties of life the forfathers of our country fought to insure
 
I listened to that tape. I'm really skeptical about the cops' ability to deduce the guy's location by scraps of conversation, as they claim. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I believe that in Florida, our cellular providers are furtively sharing our GPS data with the police.

Ditch your burners.
 
or if drugs were legal or decriminalised those doors wouldnt be closed

sure no one forced him to have a crack pipe, but no one forced the gov't to take away the liberties of life the forfathers of our country fought to insure

yup. the liberties to freely smoke crack lulz! i love drugs as much as the next person but between the article and responses it has me rofl

I listened to that tape. I'm really skeptical about the cops' ability to deduce the guy's location by scraps of conversation, as they claim. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I believe that in Florida, our cellular providers are furtively sharing our GPS data with the police.

Ditch your burners.

dont we freely share our own data by having the choice of turning all GPS locations off? i know my iphone has it but the only person who can access my location when everything off is 911 but thats not optional to turn off.
 
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dont we freely share our own data by having the choice of turning all GPS locations off? i know my iphone has it but the only person who can access my location when everything off is 911 but thats not optional to turn off.

The only way to truly turn it off is to drive a spear through it, as I did yesterday.

Seriously though, they're already giving our info to 911? They admit to doing this?
 
Yes and In there defense when you call 911 and are to out of it to give your location or you cant give your location but can only call and hang up then they can locate you. It makes sense in a way in case your in a life or death situation where they gotta locate you. I agree. You should be able to turn it completely off if you want to.
 
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