Wednesday, June 16, 2021

State v. Brown, A-5386-17

From the Another Day at the Office department: 

Someone overdosed on drugs. The police, noticing texts on the dead guy's phone the police believed were with the dead guy's drug dealer, pretended to be the dead guy and invited the supposed drug dealer to bring some more product to the dead guy's house to sell to the dead guy. 

As recounted in the opinion, the bust culminated in the following exchange. In it, "Neiber" is the cop pretending to be the dead guy and "1129" is the suspected dealer coming to make a delivery:

Neiber:  Come around back.  

1129:  Huh?

Neiber:  Around my house.

At  that  point,  defendant  exited his  car  and  walked  toward  the  back  of  Levine's residence and was confronted by a SWAT team. 

So basically, the cops tell the dealer, 'bring the stuff around back', and when the guy comes around back with a rather pedestrian amount of drugs, BOOM, SWAT TEAM.

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