Yep, suuuuuuuurrrreeeeeee......
The vice president of Baltimore's NAACP
chapter said yesterday during a rally for taxicab drivers that his
reputation has been damaged after police arrested him, claiming to have
found drugs in his car.
Ellis L. Staten Jr., 44, was not charged with a crime, although officers said they recovered heroin and marijuana during a search of his vehicle Thursday near Pennsylvania Avenue and Dolphin Street.
Staten said he was targeted by police because of his work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which held an organizing meeting yesterday for city cabdrivers.
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Staten said the drugs that police found belonged to a volunteer who was helping pass out fliers about the rally. Kevin Logan, 44, who was in the back seat of the car, was charged with two counts of drug possession.
But police said they found Staten in possession of Suboxone pills, or buprenorphine, which is prescribed to treat heroin addiction.
"They singled me out because I'm the one responsible for getting the cabdrivers together. No more perfect person to defame than the NAACP," Staten said.
Ellis L. Staten Jr., 44, was not charged with a crime, although officers said they recovered heroin and marijuana during a search of his vehicle Thursday near Pennsylvania Avenue and Dolphin Street.
Staten said he was targeted by police because of his work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which held an organizing meeting yesterday for city cabdrivers.
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Staten said the drugs that police found belonged to a volunteer who was helping pass out fliers about the rally. Kevin Logan, 44, who was in the back seat of the car, was charged with two counts of drug possession.
But police said they found Staten in possession of Suboxone pills, or buprenorphine, which is prescribed to treat heroin addiction.
"They singled me out because I'm the one responsible for getting the cabdrivers together. No more perfect person to defame than the NAACP," Staten said.
Is it possible it was another person's stash?
Yes.
I want to know what "in possession" means. On his person or in his car. And if in his car, was it a bag owned by him or in the open under a seat, on the seat...
It doesn't look good.
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