Deep Gap, North Carolina. Last night at around 11 PM, I received a knock on my door from the Watauga County Sheriff’s office. I calmly stepped outside onto the front porch to speak to them. As I walked outside, the young cop that was knocking asked me “Are y’all the potsmokers?”
I replied “no sir”, which for that day was true. My girlfriend and I have been struggling with money so we had not been buying weed but our house did have multiple pieces of paraphernalia in it.
He claimed that he and his older partner were responding to a domestic call that they received from the residents of apartment C. We live in Apartment C. Obviously we didn’t call the police in ourselves.
I tried to respond to him but as I was speaking, he reached down and opened my front door and barged right in, without any discussion of a warrant or anything like that. When I began to ask questions such as “How can you enter my house without a warrant?” and “Can I have your badge numbers?” they locked me outside and said that if I spoke or tried to enter the house that they would throw me in jail.
They came in the house and saw a bunch of old bongs sitting in our kitchen and put them in a box as evidence. Then they hassled my girlfriend, threatening her with jail time if she don’t comply completely. Originally, we both were only getting a paraphernalia charge, but the cop who kept telling me to “Shut the fuck up or you’re going to jail” because I was asking questions, told his partner that I was outside being disorderly, and that “he was going to add a possession charge for that” and sure enough I alone got the possession charge in addition to the paraphernalia.
Now we’re stuck in the situation that we are facing thousands of dollars of fines and court costs, while we’re already struggling financially. I’m not sure legally what leg I have to stand on, but I am uncertain about paying for a lawyer because I really don’t have the money. I don’t know what my best course of action is, or even how much this is going to cost me so any help would be appreciated.
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