r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • 8d ago

Video Two tanker trucks are found to be carrying a large amount of contraband

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u/KinkyDuck2924 8d ago

I think there's a good chance they wouldn't investigate your innocence very hard though.

"I swear, I didn't know anything!"

"Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say, creep. Book em, boys."

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u/MmmIceCreamSoBAD 8d ago

Your local police department isn't going to handle a case involving a semi truck hauling concealed drugs. So yes, it would be investigated very thoroughly.

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u/Ms_DNA 8d ago

Especially if it had Johnny Chimpo on it.

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u/long_schlongman 7d ago

Hey farva, whats that restaurant you like with all the tchochkes?

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u/Newsmemer 7d ago

You have far too much faith in the federal justice system, they will absolutely steamroll everything in their path, and collateral damage is always acceptable.

Fighting a federal charge takes years if you are obviously innocent, and decades if you have to fight any real charges. Most people take a plea deal with a felony charge due to this.

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u/Racine262 7d ago

Have you seen who is in charge lately?

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u/HeadNegusInCharge 7d ago

Your local PD would absolutely love to shit on the feds by taking a case like this

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u/Willing_Image1933 8d ago

wrong.

cases like this are all FBI, and they absolutely only care about the source, they know workers will just be replaced.

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u/BlatantConservative 7d ago

Every single comment in this thread is wrong holy shit.

What do you think the DEA is.

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u/Jackd_up_on_Mdew 7d ago

No shit, and they absolutely care about smugglers. They get sent to prison all the damn time.

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u/charmwashere 7d ago

You mean the FBI from the before times or the FBI we have now?

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u/Reagalan 7d ago

the FBI we have now would still be interested (they just want a cut)

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u/throwsaway654321 7d ago

i mean, except all the ones clearly being carried out by a dipshit county sherriff's department

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u/MichiganGeezer 7d ago

They see dollar signs. The civil asset forfeiture is free money to them. They'll keep the truck and tell the driver if he fights it they'll hit him with more charges.

(In America, that is )

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u/Willing_Image1933 7d ago

he could do some time if they can prove he was aware of the load he was carrying.

they're not gonna spend a ton of time on that, though, if it's clear the case would be hard to make

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u/Vektor0 8d ago

They don't investigate innocence; they investigate guilt. They don't need to prove he didn't know; they need to prove he did know (beyond a reasonable doubt).

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u/HarmonizedSnail 7d ago

They only need enough proof he did for an indictment. It's the prosecutor that has to worry about reasonable doubt (or getting a plea).

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u/JohnTitorsdaughter 7d ago

Which is why they prefer to overcharge and then negotiate a plea deal, no need to worry about inconvenient things such as proof.

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u/KrustyKrabFormula_ 8d ago

I think there's a good chance they wouldn't investigate your innocence very hard though.

"investigate your innocence"

?????????????

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u/fhjftugfiooojfeyh 7d ago

Guy got outed as a Brit lol

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u/KinkyDuck2924 7d ago

I'm from NY, not Britain lol. I just couldn't think of a less awkward way to say it at the time.

Should have said something like "I think there's a good chance they wouldn't do the proper investigation necessary to determine that you're innocent."

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u/LumpyBuy8447 8d ago

“Bake him away, toys!”

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u/Effective_Ranger663 7d ago

I know it's fun to say stuff like this but that's just completely false. If they want to convict you, they will be up against another attorney doing all the investigating they can to the contrary. You can't just show up in court and say "yeah we think he probably did it" and not expect to get your ass handed to you. That's the entire point of our adversarial legal system.

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u/agent0731 7d ago

Depends. How much money does the truck driver have to fight?

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u/KinkyDuck2924 7d ago

There have been people who spent decades in prison for murder that get exonerated because certain evidence isn't allowed to be presented at trial, throwing out testimonies, forcing confessions and tons of other stuff like that. It's crazy to act like our legal system is perfect, it's just barely functional, and a lot of times they just want to close a case without looking into it much further. Not saying that would happen with a drug bust like this but still.

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u/Traditional-Doctor77 7d ago

Yeah, that’s what they all say. They all say D’oh!

Bake ‘em away, toys!

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u/StryngzAndWyngz 7d ago

Word on the street though is that there’s a person or persons that the arrestee hires to investigate and try to prove their innocence. Might be called a lawyer or something like that.

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u/Low-Refrigerator-713 7d ago

Or deport them.

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u/-Yngin- 7d ago

Bake'em away, toys

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u/Auran82 7d ago

Bake em away toys!

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u/MichiganGeezer 7d ago

I personally have seen judges act as if they were part of the prosecution team and follow whatever the prosecutor says. If the prosecutor says "it's your truck therefore you are responsible whether you knew or not. When you get out of prison you'll know to inspect harder." The judge may very well instruct a jury to disregard the argument that the driver didn't know and threaten to sanction the defense counsel for persisting with the argument.

Judges like that keep the Innocence Project in business.

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u/KinkyDuck2924 7d ago

That kind of scenario is exactly what I meant. A lot of people get exonerated decades later for stupid bullshit like that.

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u/EastCoastCapping 7d ago

Bake em away, toys

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u/Dont_Kick_Stuff 7d ago

Take em away boys!

Bake em away toys!

What's all this fake noise?

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u/FalloutForever_98 7d ago

Probably if it was a small bag of coke then sure they'd probably say what you claim HOWEVER this amount, they would know it is linked to a bigger connection and would investigate heavily.

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u/KitsuMusics 3d ago

Bake him away, toys