Never, I Mean Never!, Trust a Cop

I am known to tell my kids, “Never, say never, as never is a very long time.”  I am also known to tell my kids that telling the truth is always the wisest thing to do.  After reading a story in the New York Times under the headline Robbed, Then Scared; Armed, Then Arrested, a feature of NYT’s The Neediest Cases, I can longer, in good faith, tell them never to say never, or that telling the truth is always the wisest thing to do.

The NYT story informs of a young couple whose home was invaded and robbed, while the couple were in the home.  Shortly after this violation of the couple and their property, the husband purchased a handgun, on the street, for protection.  This is where the story gets interesting.

...five months after the robbery, as Mr. Baez was visiting their Manhattan apartment to collect the mail, a police officer stopped him in the lobby and frisked him, he said. Finding nothing, the officer asked him if he had any drugs or weapons on him. Nervous, he decided to confess: “I just got home-invaded in September and I have a weapon for my protection,” Mr. Baez recalled telling the officer.

He was arrested, and despite having no criminal record, he faced up to three and a half years in prison. Prosecutors offered him a deal of one year if he pleaded guilty, and he accepted. He is to be sentenced Jan. 27.

“We were afraid to fight it,” Ms. Baez said. “We couldn’t be without him for three and a half years.”

Additional details regarding the reason for the apparent random “frisking” of Jason Baez are non-existent in the NYT piece, but the first question that comes to my mind upon reading this story is where are all the ACLU hotshots who would normally be clamoring about unlawful searches and seizures?

Via The War on Guns.

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