From the blog at TwinCities.com, we find a police report from Minneapolis:
(St. Paul, Minnesota) A Minnesota man is in jail on charges of possession with intent to deliver marijuana following an arrest in St. Paul.
According to the police report, Apiemi Kebaso, Jr. was approached by Officer Jon Sherwood, who was investigating a burglary report in which a handgun was taken. As Sherwood began questioning, Kebaso ignored lawful orders and began walking away. Kebaso then took a baggie of marijuana in his possession and threw it under the squad car to try and hide it. Sherwood took Kebaso into custody and discovered many more baggies and cash on Kebaso.
Minnesota is a decrim state; possession of less than 42.5 grams (1.5 ounces) is only a misdemeanor offense with a $200 fine. But any amount in two or more baggies is going to get you an “intent to deliver” (sell) charge, which then starts putting you on the Minnesota felony charts for five years and a $10,000 fine.
Your underwear is always a better place to hide weed than underneath the cop car! With weed in your crotch, police need a pretty specific reason to search you. They are allowed to pat you down for weapons, but not your crotch. You can and should refuse all searches, which means not responding or acting when they say, “take everything out of your pockets!” or “what do you have there stashed in your crotch?*”, and just repeating “I don’t consent to any searches and I’d like to speak with an attorney before answering questions. Am I free to go, officer?”
That doesn’t mean they won’t find or manufacture a pretext to take you in, search you, and find your crotch weed. But it will mean your lawyer has more ammunition to work with to suppress the evidence of your search and get you out of court with no criminal record.
However, if you do give the cop your weed, because he’s such a nice guy and wants to help you out and it will all go easier on you if you do, you will be arrested, guaranteed, and your lawyer will have no recourse because you willingly surrendered your rights and your weed.
* Gentlemen, no matter how much you want to say “prime USDA choice American tube steak” or ladies, “the whistful desire of men far more worthy than you”, don’t do it!
Another bad place is in your shirt pocket. Tip, if your going to throw it under the cop car, wait till the cop isn’t looking. And don’t try the “oh, look over there” toss, although it has worked to a point, if you let them distract themselves.
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seems to be areasonable place to throw it…if he’d gotten away with it