confiscated commander

What area are you from? I would like to find out more about the state and local law. Where I work if you confiscate something you better charge someone with the crime. Confiscating something and letting them go doesn't cut it. Unless you are confiscating something for safekeeping and in that case they can get it back.
 
this is what happened exactly (and by the way im in virginia in the DC area) two cars pulled into baskin robbins, i was in the car where there were some people who were drunk (including me), and there was a car next to us with some people i know who weren't doing anything. the cops pulled up and told everyone not to move. i reached in my pocket and (very moronically) threw my knife under the car since i knew it was illegal. I promptly jumped in the other car and we drove off. i wasn't charged with anything since they didn't think i came in the car that was searched, but the cops found my knife on the floor after we left and pocketed it. what should i do?? should i call the station and say that it fell out of my pocket?? or should i shed a few tears for my emerson and go on...
 
Let me get this straight, because your story keeps changing...You were drunk, cops pull up, you dump the Commander under the car, because you knew it was "illegal." And, now, you want to go to the local Police Station, and ask for it back? How do you know an Officer took custody of it?

If the Commander is prohibited by law, then it's contraband, and you will not get it back, even if you ask, beg or plead. I would suggest you forget about it...

--dan
 
the reason i know the cops picked it up was because two of my friends stayed as the car was searched, and they saw him pick it up. One of my friends asked if the knife was illegal and he said no, but it was his now. its no sword, just a big pocket knife, and i would guess that the cop didn't know the exact length of the blade anyways. maybe i should just forget about it...and my story hasn't changed i was just giving an abridged version earlier, since i didn't think details were necessary.
 
I think you should write it off...
Here in Ohio CCW knife is a first degree Midemeanor, 6 months in jail and $1000.00 fine. Lying to the police is the same. Seems to me the $150.00 you lost is a small portion of what you could have paid to the attorney and courts.

You knew it was illegal so you threw it.

I suggest you forget it and chalk it up to a significant life experiance. If you go in to claim your knife you will be found to be the 'liar' at the scene and that would probably provoke charges.
 
...A glass pot/crack-smoking-pipe, and you were all "drunk in public"??? Damn, I hate to be a hard-ass, but you didn't deserve to have that knife!.:mad:. Someone who makes the decision to carry a knife also must choose maturity, and his friends alittle better!
 
glockman, just trying to have some fun

to everyone else, i have won! i just talked to the officer, told him that my knife slipped out of my pocket and i needed it back, he is leaving out for me to come by and get, life is good.
 
Originally posted by forty0unces
glockman, just trying to have some fun

to everyone else, i have won! i just talked to the officer, told him that my knife slipped out of my pocket and i needed it back, he is leaving out for me to come by and get, life is good.
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Breaking the law (possession of a [glass] "pot/crack pipe", and drunk in public) is not my idea of "fun". However, it IS good that you are getting your property (knife) back.

...Now, BEHAVE yourself, and THINK!.:).
 
Gadget, are you kidding? do you think that they would try to prosecute me without telling me over the phone?? is that something that cops would really do??

glockman: we all have different ways to go have fun, thanks for the good advice though...and it was not a crack pipe!! i am not that stupid, i do smoke a little ganja though.
 
dude, in all honesty, are you making this up, or have you heard them pull tricks like this?? (i like the clean underwear idea)
 
Oh...I can say with all honesty you are probably walking into a big ol' trap. "I'll leave it out for you"!! You believe this? This will be a good story to tell the guys in lock-up after your arrest.

Leave the knife, consider it "I wasn't thinking tax", and get new friends.

PEACE
 
haha...i did wear clean underwear, and i walked out of there with my commander and my underwear still clean! they made me sign one thing and told me i could take it...

it was funny because on the evidence bag it says "black knife, make Emerson, blade ~6 inches"... it doesn't look like they investigated my 3 3/4 inch blade very closely...

so i got in the car amazed at how easily i got the knife back, and opened it and noticed two huge chips in the blade...definitely not my doing...i am guessing that the cop had a little fun with my knife before he brought it to the station...

so i went home and sharpened the hell out of it and turned the black coating into a (almost) mirror polish with 3 grits of sandpaper and some metal polish...i am very very happy to have my knife back looking better with its new shine than it did when it left my ownership...

what was the lesson in all of this?...i learned nothing!! oh well
 
Whew! Glad you made it back. Got to worryin' when we hadn't heard from you in two days.:)
Amazing that you got the knife back with so little hassle. Lot's of places I have been in my 40+ years of knife totin' you wouldn't have seen it again.

All's well that ends well.
 
yeah, the reason i couldn't get it for 2 days was because the person in charge of Property locked it up while he was gone over the weekend, so i made a 45 minute trip for nothing on Saturday...the reason i got it back was because i told them i was going camping that night, and thats why i needed such a big knife, which was actually true, i had all my camping stuff in the car that got searched, and he remembered seeing it there...i usually only carry my mini-commander out to drinkin'...i guess the manager at Baskin Robbins just had a broom shaft up his a$$ though...the thing that gets me the most angry is that we were doing NOTHING wrong...the driver wasn't intoxicated at all, not one drop of alcohol for him, and we weren't making a scene at all, we were paying customers who were curtious and polite when we came in...the ONLY thing was that we smelled a little like alcohol...i wish i could shove 32 flavors up his...ahh...im alright, thanks for listening to me vent.
 
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