Last week my roommate, myself, and a friend were vaping out of my MFLB in my college dorm room. Low and behold, 15 minutes later the piggies come knocking on my door saying they can smell it. Knowing they would get a warrant either way, we had to open the door. They proceeded to get a search warrant and searched the entire room and found a gram, my grinder with another half gram inside, and my brand new MFLB that I had received in the mail literally 5 hours prior to this incident happening. I know many other people that vaped in their dorm in this same building with the same vape which is where I don't understand how we got caught. We were being very careful not to overheat the bud as well so it didn't combust. I was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia and they were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana. I have already talked to a lawyer and will be getting the charges expunged within the next couple months, at a hefty price of course. I am not so worried about the charges as those can be taken care of, but I am really worried about losing my education. Additionally, I have a few questions if anyone can give me some insight into the situation. 1. Where do you think the smell came from? The pig specifically said she smelled marijuana, which is not the smell that the vape makes. Possibly from grinding? 2. Thoughts on what possible repercussions we will face from the school board and what effect it may have on my academics at this school? (This is a first time offense) 3. All of the evidence was found on my side of the room and I claimed full possession of all the bud and paraphernalia and they arrested my roommate and my friend anyways. Did they have proper legal grounds to arrest them as well despite the fact that they were not physically in possession and I claimed all of it as mine? 4. We were never read our Miranda Rights. How will this affect the case in court?
You were using a MFLB; hardly a quality vape. So, I wouldn't be surprised if the room didn't reek of weed when that officer came by. First offense, you'll probably get put in a diversion program. As for what the school will do, it's hard to say. Every school is different. And, the only time Miranda Rights need to be read is AFTER arrest but BEFORE interrogation. You guys were caught red handed: you don't get Mirandized in that situation.
I go to quite a party school so there are police on campus all the time. Specifically my dorm is known as the 'party dorm' so the police walk it every night.
get some ozium shit works wonders 1 spray and u cant smell shit no lie its also super toxic and bad to breathe in but u gotta do what u gotta do sometimes.
1) There May not even have been any smell. The police are not required to tell you the truth. They can say they smell marijuana to get you to agree to a search, or to manufacture some reason for probable cause. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxVuBHMKSuU&feature=relmfu]What if Police Say They Smell Marijuana? - YouTube[/ame] If there actually was a smell, it was probably from grinding and storing weed in your room. 2) For info on what your school will do, don't ask GC, look it up on their website. Look for the code of conduct (every school has one) which explains all the rules, and exactly what the punishments are for them. The university might not enforce their rules as outlined in that document, but you won't be punished MORE than it allows. Also look up the full residence agreement that everybody is supposed to read before moving into the dorms, but nobody actually does. See what the repercussions are for marijuana possession in those rules too. 3) Yep, they can do that. 4) Not required for this. They didn't need to interrogate you. You did confess that all the weed was yours, and perhaps that confession might be thrown out in court because they didn't read your rights, but this case wouldn't hinge on that confession anyway. They found the weed, and drug paraphernalia, so that's the evidence. Good luck on getting this resolved. You have some truly horrible luck. I'm at university right now too. There's dome dudes in my building who smoke in their rooms fairly often, and they're idiots--not even trying to be stealthy. They haven't been caught yet, but every couple months somebody on campus gets in trouble for it, so I'd rather play it safe. Also, my room is right across the hall from the RA's, and I can only afford this fucking expensive school because of a merit scholarship--which I'll lose if I get caught, whether its by the police or not. So yeah, I'm super cautious, and just go into the forest.
Yeah, my school is a party school too. The university has its own fucking police force, and they're always around.
Cannabis laws on certain campuses are fucking ridiculous it makes me fuming! I saw get a real box or fishbowl vape, a sploof and a big can of Ozium for $7.
You might get kicked out of campus housing, and im not sure if you get any financial aid but you can't have a pot charge and get federal loans, its a question on fafsa. As for your friend and roommate they can go to court and say it was your weed, and that you claimed all possession of it. Hopefully the judge is understanding
Just dont open the doors in instances like these, til everything is stashed, flushed, whatever you have to do . . . .
Best advice I can give would be don't smoke in your dorm room If you do then make sure you have everything ready to be thrown out the window quickly if needed, chances are they won't have someone outside. Really though don't smoke in your dorm if you can be caught easily. If your friends have houses go there to blaze I always did freshman year once I got caught.
Young if worst come to worst I would make a small paper fire in a metal trashcan then let the police see that before I gave them all my tree
Haha wow this exact thing happened to me bro. I was vaping my mflb in my dorm (but with the power adapter lol) then I went to bed. I was woken up with a knock on my door so thinking it was my roommate I opened the door and it was a cop. He said he got a call that it smelled like weed and asked me 3 times to search the room. I said no twice but he said he wouldn't leave until he looked around and since it's a dorm and I don't think you have much rights in a dorm I eventually let him. I had a one hitter separate from my weed and vape so I gave him that hoping he would think that was everything but as soon as I gave him the one hitter he opened my door and 3 cops come and search my room. All in all they found a one hitter, vape, grinder and 1 gram in a pill bottle. They could of fucked me with paraphernalia but even though I lied about having weed I was still saying yes sir and shit being respectful and they could tell I was freaking the fuck out so they only charged me with weed. When all the cops were together they said they were gonna charge me with a lot of things but once they split up the cop that took me to the station dropped the paraphernalia charges after we talked. I was given a $400 possession ticket and let go and a month later I had a meeting with the court officer and got the charge lowered to disorderly conduct in exchange for bumping the ticket up to $500. I've got it paid off now and it's behind me now hopefully it works out for you but I hope you will learn from this. Don't even step into your dorm if you have weed on you. Keep it in your car or something usually keeping shit in your car is a bad idea but it's better than your dorm.
this happened to me, but in my *ex* bf's dorm I was in the shower, they were playing video games, smoking like idiots inside.. I heard yelling, got out of the shower, and cracked open the door.. ....lo and behold, a shit ton of cops, with guns anyway.. it was horrific, we all spent the night &the whole next day in jail- got kicked out of the dorms immediately, and the rest of school for a semester. to go back we had to write letters of apology to our roommates who smoked with us daily, and we were on academic probation. So, since our charges were similar, maybe the consequences will be? I'm really sorry this happened, ...take it as a lesson, never EVER smoke in dorms!
You probably had poor airflow in your room so vapor was leaking out into the hallway or something. Also if you don't keep your weed in an air tight container then the smell will probably leak out. Lastly invest in some air freshener. A few sprays of febreeze of one spray of ozium usually kills any weed odor.
Here's some advice if you smoke/vape/even roll a joint in a dorm room, you WILL get caught. Just got to somewhere off campus and smoke. Hell, even smoking on campus outside somewhere is better than in your dorm room. ever heard the phrase don't shit where you eat? Yeah, that. Sorry to hear you got caught though, shit blows. School/legal punishments vary too much from state to state and school to school so it's kinda hard to tell you what's gonna happen in your future.
Just some additional info if this may help with any assumptions anyone has... The university I attend is in Texas. We are all first time offenders with clean criminal records prior to this incident. Also, we all have government financial aid (FAFSA), pell grants or other university instated scholarships/grants. After doing a bit of research it seems as though we will all lose this aid. Any further info on that? We are going to talk to my lawyer today to get more info but I'm not sure if he is going to have any information on what the school punishment may be and to be completely honest, I am stressing enormously about that aspect of the process. I know that it was a massive mistake and am taking full responsibility for my actions, I just wish marijuana laws weren't as unnecessarily strict as they are. Not looking for condolence but if there is anyone that has had to deal with similar situations such as this one in the state of Texas please let me know the outcome so I can be ready for what I am going to have to endure.
The smell came from you vaping, obviously. Vaping still smells (albeit less than smoking) and there's also the smell of the un-smoked weed as well. Furthermore a draft may have pushed the air from your dorm out into the hall/common area, taking the smell with it. And grinding does make raw weed release a great deal of smell, so that's to be considered as well. Depends. If you're lucky the court will go easy, give you some community service. I would HIGHLY SUGGEST using those community service hours to do some volunteer work at the school, that way you look a bit better when it comes time for the school to render a verdict, so to speak. If you've had a good track record as far as grades go you have a little bit more leverage. But when it comes right down to it, the school wants your money. They don't want to kick you out so long as you can convince them that it was a one-time incident that was a result of peer pressure (ie. just blame your friends if they don't go to school there). I mean, cops can arrest whoever the fuck they want, for more or less whatever the fuck they want. Remember: cops arrest, but only judges convict. So they did have grounds to arrest your friends, but chances are if you claimed all of the gear as yours when it comes time for your friends to go to court (if their charges dont get dropped before then) they will not be convicted of any crimes. It won't. Cops (at least in most jursidictions) aren't required to read your miranda rights at all. The whole "if they don't read your rights all charges will be dropped" is just a myth, a rumor. Before an interrogation (as another poster has mentioned) they may be required to read you your rights, though normally this isn't even a legal obligation- it's just to prevent a possible "he didn't know he was allowed to have a lawyer" argument in court.