American woman spent 3 month in prison because of the error of officers who took cotton candy for methamphetamine

Dasha Fincher from Georgia spent three months in prison because of a statement by police that checking the blue substance found in the car in which the woman was in showed a positive result for methamphetamine.

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But in reality it was not a drug, it was ordinary cotton candy, writes CNN.

Fincher claims that during the time spent in prison she missed several important events in her life, including the birth of two grandchildren. In addition, she was denied medical care to treat a broken arm and an ovarian cyst.

She filed a lawsuit against Monroe County and three officers who participated in her wrongful imprisonment and violated her civil rights. The lawsuit also targets Sirchie Acquisition Company, the manufacturer of the non-laboratory amphetamine test kit that officers used to test cotton candy and get an erroneous result.

The usual car stop on the road turned into a drug trafficking charge.

According to the lawsuit, Fincher was a passenger in a car that two employees of the Monroe County Sheriff's office stopped 31 on December 2016 of the year.

At first, the policemen said that they had stopped the car, because the tinting on the windows was too dark, but at the scene it turned out that this norm was not violated.

They then asked the driver if they could search the vehicle and soon discovered “a large, clear plastic bag that contained a light blue, spherical substance,” the lawsuit states.

Fincher and the driver explained that this is just a cotton candy bag. But the police decided to test it with a non-laboratory test kit, which showed that a pack of cotton candy contained methamphetamine.

Fincher and her friend, who was driving, were arrested for possession and trafficking of methamphetamine. According to the lawsuit, Fincher "repeatedly protested her innocence, claiming that the blue substance was simply cotton candy."

Charges of drug trafficking and three months of waiting

The court set a bail for the woman in the amount of 1 million dollars, since the accusation of drug trafficking is considered serious. Unable to pay the security deposit, Fincher was locked up in prison for three months while the substance was tested at the Georgia Forensic Bureau.

On March 22, 2017, the medical examiner finally released a report that no drugs were found in the blue substance. However, Fincher was not released from prison for almost two weeks after this - she was released only on April 4.

According to the woman, she spent most of her time in prison at a loss, suggesting that her detention was a mistake and that the release was not far off.

“My biggest fear was that my granddaughter would forget me,” Fincher admitted.

She called home every day to talk to the children, but she was not around when her daughter experienced a miscarriage, and also when her son and his wife became parents of twins.

The woman hopes that her case will help to change the law enforcement system of the United States for the better; she also wants to get an answer during the trial, why after finding out the truth, she was kept in prison for more than a week.

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