dry spell gone!

I tell ya I have been going through the worst dry spell concerning tickets/arrests etc. Seems like lately I cant' even find expired tabs on the road.

Well it was storm city USA and I felt like those guys on discovery channels "storm chasers". The worst part was a 60 foot tree falling on some power lines. I thought it was okay relatively until my sarge came by and said uh yeah those are live wires on the ground. Shweew glad he knows basic electrical stuff cause I sure dont!

Anyway I decided to embrace the huge rain and wind and just get out of the car.....started stopping cars for just about anything...sucked getting so rainy and poured on but it ended up being good. I caught three different suspended drivers tonight...yep got the ol hat trick yeeee haw.

Prostitution : Now I tell you what it is a legal nightmare to try and get convictions on these things let alone even arrests...you know it when you see it but its hard to prove. Me and my partner were sitting in our super-dirtbag area. Its riddles with prostitution and narcotic activity. We see a car see us and all of sudden drive past where they should have gone and continue into an abandoned industrial building parking lot.....thankfully we got a reason to stop the car and a 50 year old dude is in the car with a 19 year old female.

I contact the driver....he gives me his license which lists a local address just a little ways from where we are....you still live at blah blah blah ? Yeah......what are you doing down here? Well just giving her a ride home. Who is she? oh her name is blah blah blah....I go over to my partner who is contacting the girl and her name is not blah blah blah. Who is she to you sir your girlfriend....stutter....processes for lie...uh she is just a friend he says again. Suspicious that he is best friends with this girl yet doesnt even know her name.

The next 20 minutes consists of playing a defense attorney game trying to figure out how we can bust these people...we know what they are doing or just did and now it was a challenge trying to prove it......it involves alot of psychology and reverse psycology getting them to commit to their lies and silly stories/explanations and excuses then use that against them when they trip up. I eventually get him to admit to picking her up along the road and agreeing to pay money in exchange for sex. She partially admits to part of the story but in the end we had enough to charge her. I could have charged him but he finally came clean and relatively honest with me so I didn't want to punish him for that since he agreed to write a statement which helps the case. I still got an "arrest" from him for a suspended license and she got an "arrest" for prostitution but we didnt book em into jail cause our jurisdiction is kinda poor and we dont like to book people.

Who knows if it will hold up in court but it was a good experience and a learning one at that!

to be continued....