Bird-watcher wrongly arrested for possession of pot had sage in backpack
Liberty Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
By SUSANNAH BRYAN, PalmBeachPost.com
She prayed for peace that day.
But the sage that Robin Brown carried on a bird-watching outing in Weston landed her in jail on felony charges of marijuana possession.
Now she is suing over the wrongful arrest.
“I’m not out for revenge,” said Brown, 49, a soft-spoken woman from Montana who moved to Hollywood in 2007. “I’m trying to bring information to light so that it doesn’t happen to anyone else.”
Sheriff’s Deputy Dominic Raimondi, 51, mistook Brown’s sage for marijuana, then searched her car and found more. His field kit said the sage — purchased at an airport gift shop in Albuquerque, N.M. — tested positive for marijuana.
He did not arrest her that day in March 2009, but sent the 50 grams of “contraband” to the crime lab for a more definitive test.
Assistant State Attorney Mark Horn ordered Brown’s arrest without having the sage tested, court records show.
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