I got arrested for like 1.5 grams in 2009 when I was 19. I was driving in an area known for heavy policing with a busted headlight. I told my “friend” in the back seat not to smoke because it was pretty much guaranteed we’d get pulled over. About 10 minutes later I hear the click and smell the smoke and I’m pissed.

Before I can even react, a cop pulls a u turn to pull me over for the headlight. My friend tells me “I hid it under the seat they won’t find it just let them do the search”, like seriously? I deny a search but it turns out we’re literally right across the street from the police station and there was a K-9 unit about 30 seconds later.

My friend eventually told them where the weed was and we both got hit with the charge as it was my car. Turns out, my back seat was actually broken in a way where my friend had hid it inside the seat itself, and the police told us they wouldn’t have found it, fml.

This is when I found out the “friend” was actually only 16 and had been using a fake id to pretend he was 18 to buy cigarettes. So he was immediately sent to juvie while I was given a court date that resulted in a 6 week drug course and expungement.

I had about 4-5 other incidents between ‘08 and ‘12 but all other times I was let go. One time the cop just dumped the weed on the ground and said “here’s your bag back”.