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Trafficking Chocolate

Trafficking Chocolate
9/30/2008 10:09:56 AM aaron
21 Posts aaron's Avatar
I was reading this article and I thought it was pretty funny but stil unfair. A couple was traveling from Canada to the United States and they had raw chocolate with them. There were drug sniffing dogs in the airport and they stopped them and arrested them. They thought the chocolate was actually hashish. They took away their 6 month old baby and separated the husband and wife and interrogated them. They threatened them with life in prison, and even told them that the other already admitted there were drugs. They tested the chocolate with a NIK drug testing kit and it turned out positive. However it turns out that the NIK drug testing kits return false positives nearly 100% of the time if the results are interpreted incorrectly.
They were later let out on bail and their baby was returned to them. They got a lawyer and the lawyer sent samples of their chocolate to a proper lab, where it turned out it really was chocolate. The couple had to pay $22,000 in legal bills and then another $10,000 to clear up their name in America. Canada didn’t even apologize or compensate them for all the bills they have to pay instead all they said was “you must’ve been smoking something before you came into the airport.”

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9/30/2008 10:17:59 AM alessandra
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That's terrible lol, those poor people how sad.  I can't believe they had to play that much money in legal fees when they didn't even do anything.  I would fight to get my money back if that happened to me!
RE: Trafficking Chocolate
9/30/2008 5:16:01 PM jess55
24 Posts jess55's Avatar
I read this article too.. I guess they're suing but theyre also asking for donations to help pay their legal fees. They have a chocolate store and I guess they make really good chocolate and out of natural ingredients, so if you buy chocolate from them it counts as a donation for them. I feel so bad for them though. But what I read was that it didn't just happen once, it happened twice!!
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10/2/2008 12:05:42 PM truesailor
25 Posts truesailor's Avatar
I hope they win their case and get lots of money out of it!! Thats terrible!!  
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