Undercover Informant Plants Crack In Store Of NY Businessman Donald Andrews (VIDEO)

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A New York head-shop owner was targeted by local police after they became suspicious of his store, leading them to send in an undercover informant on two separate occasions.

On the second visit, the informant allegedly planted, and then photographed, crack cocaine, which led to the arrest of store owner Donald Andrews, Jr.

Andrews operates a “smoke shop” in Scotia that sells incense and other smoking paraphernalia that can easily be used for other illicit activities.

Andrews' attorney, Kevin Luibrand, narrated a video that was shot by in-store surveillance cameras that appears to show the informant planting and photographing the crack.

"He comes in," Luibrand said. "Places the crack on the counter. Crack, which under federal sentencing guidelines, would get him 4 years in jail. Under New York State law would get him 2 to 7 years in jail."

There are seven cameras in plain view in Andrews’ small store.

Andrews was released after he got police to look at the multiple angles that his cameras captured. The informant has fled. He is facing perjury and possession charges.

"With an informant like this, he will lie and plant things and he can't really be trusted," said Robert Outlar, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Andrews has started filing a lawsuit for wrongful arrest, WNYT reported.

A video about the story is below:

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/soci...ck-store-ny-businessman-donald-andrews-video#
 
SCLC? Like the MLK-related thing back in the day? How are they relevant to this?







Fucked up shit is fucked up...
 
Thank fuck he had enough cameras to catch this dodgy fuck. I wonder how common this is, it's scary to think about really.
 
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Both commenters above me used "fuck".
I was going to begin by writing "that's fucking amazing that this is a real story". Same feelings of unfairness, and bitterness.

That is SO FUCKED UP.
And they won't get all the ones most responsible for it, I bet - from the police chief to the supervisor to the lowest in the chain, the informant who planted that crack. They will certainly get the last one, but will they reach to the one who ordered that ? (And why do I not feel confident that the answer is that those ultimately responsible will be punished?)
Shouldn't this invalidate ALL drug arrests made by that police station?
How many others are languishing in prison based on planted evidence?
 
I think they should eliminate the ridiculous, out of touch drug laws. Honestly, when it gets to the level of some crackhead wanting to get out of his 5th possession charge so badly that he sets up some random fuck store owner, then everyone should understand that its getting ridiculous. Sign of the times...
 
At the very least, juries should think twice before convicting someone based on the actions of an informant, who profits from his informing.

Most of these prosecutions never get to be heard before a jury though. But a lawyer worth his pay should be able to get a judge to throw out such deficient evidence--so long as the judge isn't venal.
 
Bob Loblaw said:
SCLC? Like the MLK-related thing back in the day? How are they relevant to this?
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A small town police force is planting drugs in what is likely one of the only local African American owned businesses and you don't think it's relevant? I can't think of a more clear civil rights violation than this.
 
I just read a book about this...why use informants to do your police work especially when the informants can gain financially, or get their sentences reduced? Real police work trumps that any day...if there is such a thing as real police work in the war on drugs...
 
23536 said:
Most of these prosecutions never get to be heard before a jury though. But a lawyer worth his pay should be able to get a judge to throw out such deficient evidence--so long as the judge isn't venal.
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Unfortunately, I know from firsthand experience how plea bargains work. Essentially, if I hadn't agreed to the plea bargain, I would have spend 1 and 1/2 years-2 years in court fighting a charge that I probably could have gotten out of but I would have been in the hole quite a bit in legal fees and if I had lost, I would have been a felon. The system is fucked in that way. If you actually want a fair trial, it will cost you quite a bit. Hopefully, we can eventually get everyone to demand jury trials, because the absurd cost would then be put upon the courts. They could raise our taxes of course but I think the resulting caseload would irritate the system pretty well.
 
manboychef said:
I just read a book about this...why use informants to do your police work especially when the informants can gain financially, or get their sentences reduced? Real police work trumps that any day...if there is such a thing as real police work in the war on drugs...
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Problem one is no matter what they do, cops look and act like cops. They stick out really bad. Undercover drug deals are probably the highest risk thing they can do and they are afraid to get shot. Not that this operation was dangerous. In a case like this they can also just blame the informant. A lot of informants will do a lot of desperate stuff to get out of charges, the system is set up to encourage this crap.
 
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