The Orlando officer tested the glaze twice and it came up positive for meth both times, the report said.
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WFTV sent an email to Orlando police asking if there will be an investigation into the equipment.
Rushing tried to tell the officer that it was glaze from a donut, but to no avail. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins who was staking out the area because of complaints of drug activity.
Police in Florida appear to have made “dopes” of themselves after they arrested a man for possessing what they thought was crystal meth, when it was actually icing sugar from a Krispy Kreme doughnut.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, 64-year-old Daniel Rushing was pulled over for failing to stop as he left a 7-Eleven parking lot and speeding.
When Rushing pulled out his wallet, officer Riggs-Hopkins observed a concealed weapons permit.
Rushing said he gave officers permission to search his auto. “And they found four little flakes of the icing”, Rushing said.
That’s when, according to the arrest report, she noticed the suspicious “rock like substance”, a.k.a. flakes of doughnut glaze, which she was able to identify as an illegal drug thanks to her “eleven years of training and experience”. He was then charged with possession of methamphetamine with a firearm.
Rushing spent around 10 hours in a police cell before he was allowed post bail of $2,500.
A state crime lab performed another test on the substance found in his auto and cleared him.
The Orlando Police Department defended the arrest as lawful when reached by the Sentinel, but Mr. Rushing told the newspaper he’s hired a lawyer and intends to sue the city for damages as soon as next month.
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Three days later the charge against him was dropped.
