Cleveland Police Run Fake Drug Checkpoints on Interstate, Arrest People Who Seek to Evade

From Cleveland.com:

MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Police are not allowed to use checkpoints to search motorists and their vehicles for drugs. So, in Mayfield Heights, officers are trying the next-best thing -- fake drug checkpoints.

Police gathered in the express lanes of Interstate 271 on Monday after placing signs along the freeway warning motorists that a drug checkpoint lay ahead.

There was no checkpoint, only police waiting for motorists to react suspiciously after seeing the signs. A Mayfield Heights assistant prosecutor says it's a lawful and legitimate tactic in his city's war on drugs.

"We should be applauded for doing this," Dominic Vitantonio said. "It's a good thing."

Civil libertarians and one of the people who was stopped and searched are skeptical. They wonder if officers were profiling motorists and whether anyone's Fourth Amendment right against unlawful searches and seizures was violated.

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Wasn't there a court decision (last year, I think, in Oklahoma) that said that avoiding a checkpoint is not justification for a traffic stop? That may not apply to Ohio, but I think it would make a compelling case.

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Marijuana Sobriety Checkpoints: New Legislation to Outlaw Driving While Stoned

By Chris Roberts

Some will swear that marijuana has merit for motorists. Others fear impairment of any kind, at any level. We're pretty terrified of teen drivers, especially those with cell phones and hangovers, but we'll leave it to the government to intervene on this great debate.

Under a bill introduced last month by a SoCal assemblywoman, driving while stoned would result in an automatic DUI offense.

The proposed bill would tag this "offense" onto the section of the Vehicle Code that addresses drunk driving. The new section states that any level of "cannabinoids or synthetic cannabinoid compound" found in a driver's blood or urine, up to three hours after a traffic stop, would equate to a DUI, according to AB 2552, which was introduced by Assemblywoman Norma Torres (D-Pomona).

However,cannabinoids remain in the body for days or weeks after consumption, according to California NORML. If passed, Torres' bill would essentially criminalize outright operation of a motor vehicle by any marijuana user. So hopefully tokers know enough beer-drinkers skilled enough to stay under 0.08 to designated-drive them to work.

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Thanks CA, you astound me with all of your intelligent contributions to humanity. I'll take $20 worth of what ever Norma Torres is smoking. So...driving while stoned isn't currently illegal??? All this is going to do is create a market for smoke houses where everyone will party together between trips in the car. Life as we know it will be even better than it is today. Just imagine! pot heads have big dreams ....that go no where..

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