Police goofed; man acquitted of drug charges

Barrington Carr, a fifty-five year old paraplegic and former police constable, has been acquitted of Drug Trafficking. Carr got the good news today when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court and it appears that it was shoddy police work, which led Magistrate Roberto Ordonez to find Carr not guilty on a technicality. At three p.m. on August thirtieth, police executed a search warrant at Carr’s residence on Amara Avenue and found fifteen parcels of crack cocaine wrapped in silver foil. During his testimony, Carr denied that the drugs belonged to him. And while there was no doubt that the drugs the police found at Carr’s residence were the same ones they tendered as exhibit at the trial, the department failed to submit the transparent plastic bag the drugs were found in as well as Carr’s search warrants and custody form. As a result, Magistrate Ordonez had no choice but to acquit Carr.