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A 28 year old man he spent 41 days in a Florida jail accused of heroin trafficking, although the substance that he had in his possession was detergent for washing machines, was released without charge when the truth was discovered, local media reported today.
The case of Matthew Crull, "falsely accused of drug trafficking", was discovered as a result of an internal investigation at the Martin County (East Coast of Florida) Steven O 'Leary, who was hired in 2018 to be a member of this body and in eleven months he made 80 arrests for drugs.
Sheriff William Snyder fired 0 "Leary, which is the subject of an investigation and which also examines all cases.
In addition to Crull, others Ten people were released without charge, reported Florida's CBS12 channel.
Matthew Crull told the media that when he was arrested, Oy Leary told him that the 92 grams of detergent that he had in his car had been tested positive for heroin.
To prove it to him, he showed him a picture in his cell phone where I saw the positive result that he had announced and that it was wrong, says Crull cameras with tears in their eyes.
December 5, 2018 the young man was sleeping in his car in a parking lot at Jensen Beach when a police patrol woke him up. "I have been falsely accused of drug trafficking", says Crull, who says that he has never seen the device with which they are manufactured "in situ" drug testing.
A judge accused him of trafficking heroin and released him on bail $ 500,000, "so there was no way that get out of prison"he added.
But the sheriff's office discovered during the badysis of substances seized by O. Leary detainees that the the evidence against Crull was a detergent.
With information from EFEUSA
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