- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania
I only have until 2PM tomorrow, please help me.
So let me start off by saying that I am not from Pennsylvania, I'm from Virginia and am here for work. These officers handed me and everyone else absolutely zero paperwork and told us that if we handed them $461.25, which they said is the max "disorderly conduct" fine, that they would let us go with that. I've personally never heard of handing officers money to let you go, unless it's a bribe. When we couldn't come up with that for 3 people, totaling $1,383.75, he said to come by the magistrates office tomorrow at 2PM and pay it, gave me an address and everything. I'm going to go extremely in depth as best I can because I really feel like something is off. If not, please let me know so I can just pay this and get it over with.
My coworkers and myself went to Walmart to get food for the house we are staying at, and as we are walking about putting our groceries in the car and about to leave 2 police cars pull up without their lights on and get out. My coworker is putting oil in our car at this time, so I get out and ask them "Is there is a problem officer." He says, "Yeah it smells like weed all around your car, and we got a call from a probation officer that said they saw you smoking before you went in."
Before I lose anyone, we did have marijuana in the car. We immediately gave them everything we had because we are out of town and just want to avoid going to jail at any costs and keep working and making money. They proceeded to search our car, and once they didn't find anything else they told us to get in and wait, so we did. Then they come up to me and say, "Since possession of a small amount of marijuana is a misdemeanor in Pennsylvania, we could take you jail, have you see a magistrate to set your bond, and then have to get bonded out. Or, pay the maximum fine for Disorderly Conduct and we let you go about your night. And that goes for each of you."
Of course we tried to scrounge up the $462 a piece, even went so far as to follow the officer to an ATM after being in the Walmart parking lot for about an hour, and another officer was already waiting at the ATM. When we couldn't get it in what they considered was a reasonable amount of time they said to come by the magistrates office by 2PM and pay it.
We still never received any paper work at all.
Also, I do know the officers name and I have videos of him leading us to the ATM and pulling up to it. I started to take videos when I didn't have a good gut feeling.
So let me start off by saying that I am not from Pennsylvania, I'm from Virginia and am here for work. These officers handed me and everyone else absolutely zero paperwork and told us that if we handed them $461.25, which they said is the max "disorderly conduct" fine, that they would let us go with that. I've personally never heard of handing officers money to let you go, unless it's a bribe. When we couldn't come up with that for 3 people, totaling $1,383.75, he said to come by the magistrates office tomorrow at 2PM and pay it, gave me an address and everything. I'm going to go extremely in depth as best I can because I really feel like something is off. If not, please let me know so I can just pay this and get it over with.
My coworkers and myself went to Walmart to get food for the house we are staying at, and as we are walking about putting our groceries in the car and about to leave 2 police cars pull up without their lights on and get out. My coworker is putting oil in our car at this time, so I get out and ask them "Is there is a problem officer." He says, "Yeah it smells like weed all around your car, and we got a call from a probation officer that said they saw you smoking before you went in."
Before I lose anyone, we did have marijuana in the car. We immediately gave them everything we had because we are out of town and just want to avoid going to jail at any costs and keep working and making money. They proceeded to search our car, and once they didn't find anything else they told us to get in and wait, so we did. Then they come up to me and say, "Since possession of a small amount of marijuana is a misdemeanor in Pennsylvania, we could take you jail, have you see a magistrate to set your bond, and then have to get bonded out. Or, pay the maximum fine for Disorderly Conduct and we let you go about your night. And that goes for each of you."
Of course we tried to scrounge up the $462 a piece, even went so far as to follow the officer to an ATM after being in the Walmart parking lot for about an hour, and another officer was already waiting at the ATM. When we couldn't get it in what they considered was a reasonable amount of time they said to come by the magistrates office by 2PM and pay it.
We still never received any paper work at all.
Also, I do know the officers name and I have videos of him leading us to the ATM and pulling up to it. I started to take videos when I didn't have a good gut feeling.
