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Felony charges were dropped on Thursday against a 20-year-old University of Virginia student who says she panicked when undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage Control division mistook her water purchase for beer.
According to Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress, the student, Elizabeth Daly, was walking to her car on April 11 at approximately 10:15 p.m. with a box of sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream she had just bought from a local supermarket when the agents—six men and one woman, all in plainclothes—approached suspecting the box, a blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water, to be a 12-pack of beer. One jumped on the hood of her SUV; another pulled out a gun, Daly said, as her roommates seated inside looked on in horror.
"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform," Daly wrote in an account submitted to the court. "I couldn't put my windows down unless I started my car, and when I started my car they began yelling to not move the car, not to start the car. They began trying to break the windows. My roommates and I were ... terrified."
Daly's roommate in the front passenger seat told her to "go, go, go"—and that's what she did, apparently "grazing" two of the agents in the process.
The students called 911 as they left the parking lot, police said, and were pulled over by another agent driving a vehicle with lights and sirens, Charlottesville Commonwealth Attorney Dave Chapman told the paper.
Daly apologized when she realized who they were, Chapman said, but agents arrested Daly and charged her with two counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and one count of eluding police—each carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison and $2,500 in fines. She spent the night in Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
"This has been an extremely trying experience," Daly wrote. "It is something to this day I cannot understand or believe has come to this point."
Either can Chapman.
"It wouldn't be the right thing to do to prosecute this," he said.
Nonetheless, Chapman "stood by the agents' decision to file charges, citing faith in a process that yielded an appropriate resolution."
"You don't know all the facts until you complete the investigation," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/uva-girl-water-beer-jail-181104442.html
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Tax money well spent.....Meanwhile in Detroit..........
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give her the max
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6 undercover officers for a suspected alcohol purchase?!
Those officers didn't have ? to do that night. -
Since when does it take 7 people to bust a college kid for having beer???
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This is what big government leads to.
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Daly apologized when she realized who they were, Chapman said, but agents arrested Daly and charged her with two counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and one count of eluding police
How can she be charged with eluding if she called the police?
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Felony charges were dropped on Thursday against a 20-year-old University of Virginia student who says she panicked when undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage Control division mistook her water purchase for beer.
According to Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress, the student, Elizabeth Daly, was walking to her car on April 11 at approximately 10:15 p.m. with a box of sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream she had just bought from a local supermarket when the agents—six men and one woman, all in plainclothes—approached suspecting the box, a blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water, to be a 12-pack of beer. One jumped on the hood of her SUV; another pulled out a gun, Daly said, as her roommates seated inside looked on in horror.
Wow! What an excellent way for your government to waste money. What stupid ? thing. -
she lucky she didnt get shot
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Even if she was buying beer did they have to jump on the hood of her car & pull a gun on her? wtf.
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? happens ery'day in the hood. Cops jump out on you for no reason - turns into a resisting arrest for you.
Still leaves the question - why the ? were you being arrested in the first place ? -
Lmao, over dramatic ass holly wood rejects.
Was the gurl black, white, latino???
Pics ppl. Chitlins u slippin b. -
Thats a lonely ? she gone eat all tht ice cream than drink all that water n flood her brain
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sweetheart93 wrote: »Even if she was buying beer did they have to jump on the hood of her car & pull a gun on her? wtf.
proper procedure -
virginia is a garbage state
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overzealous ass cops
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WHERE THE ? ARE THE PICS?? - @CC_Poncho
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Young_Chitlin wrote: »WHERE THE ? ARE THE PICS?? - @CC_Poncho
I'ma stop sayin it, you're limiting your own potential by not addin em -
Fire them. They can't differentiate water from ? ? They are clearly incapable of doing their jobs.