Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Purple Cause?

While effecting a narcotics arrest, the female arrestee kept yelling that I could not arrest her without "purple". She kept yelling "You got no purple, you got no purple". After twenty minutes or so of having her in custody, I finally gave in and asked her, "What the hell is purple?"

She replied, "You got no Purple Cause". From that day forward I refer to Probable Cause as Purple Cause.

-Detective, South Florida

2 comments:

Police Notes said...

I love it when you arrest a perp for narcotics and they say, "but these aren't my pants." HAHA so you put on someone else's pants and they just happen to have drugs in them? Riiiiight....

Anonymous said...

I arrested a guy for DUI one morning. He messed up on pills. I was filling out the paperwork and have great difficulty keeping him conscious enough to answer questions. I asked him who his employer was. He indicated that he was self employed. So I asked him his occupation. He mumbled, "drrg dlrrr". So I asked again, "What's your occupation?" He opened his eyes, lifted his head up, and responded very coherently, "drug dealer". Then he nearly passed out again. So on his paperwork his occupation is listed as drug dealer. -S FL Trooper