A few weeks ago I was pulled over for playing my stereo too loud. The cop pulled me over in an apartment complex which i believe is considered private property. He walked up to my window to ask for my license and registration. In the county I live in, a cop has to be wearing his hat to be considered in full uniform, which he wasnt. Before asking, he began to sniff around the car, to see if he smelled marijuana. After handing him my license, he walked to his car to run my information. Then he came back to my car and asked me to step out of the car. He told me to walk to the trunk of my car, where he searched me, without telling me what he was searching me for and without asking me to search me. Then he asked my friend to step out of the car and proceeded to search without asking. He then went to my car and started searching it, where he said he found a small flake of marijuana in plain view. He walked back to the trunk where I was and showed it to me and said I was being put under arrest for possession and put me in handcuffs. Then he put my friend in handcuffs. He didnt read either of us our rights. He then asked me about the weed and asked if there was anymore in the car. I told him I didn't know. He then started to search my car, broke open my glovebox, which was locked and found a bowl with resin on it. Then he popped my trunk and started to search that. He then proceeded to put me in the patrol car and search my car some more. After searching some more and finding a little baggie of weed, he came back to the car and started to check my record. I asked him what was going on and he said he was figuring out whether or not to take me to jail. I asked him why he searched me and he said my eyes were red, which was bullshit because I hadn't smoked in like 2 hours. He also said my friends eyes were red and he hadn't smoke in a few days. After that he wrote me my tickets for the possession, but wasn't going to write me a ticket for the loud music, which he originally pulled me over for, and even said after writing the tickets for possession, "Oh yeah, let me write you a ticket for what I pulled you over for". Then he let me go. Bottom line, this officer is notorious for being a douche and searching people on bullshit reasons like this. The whole situation started with him screwing up by smelling my car, which I knew he was smelling for weed, then searching me without permission, searching my friend without permission, claiming there was marijuana in plain view, then searching my car without permission, didn't read us any rights, broke open my glovebox, which was locked, searched my trunk, on private property, without a hat on, which means he wasn't in full uniform. I know he just pulled me over to search my car, but is this an illegal search? I got a ticket a few days before because of loud music and a different cop pulled me over, ran my information, gave me my ticket and let me go on about my business. I can't have a possession charge and I'm going to court for it so I need to know if I should fight it or not.