Now, don't get me wrong, I enjoy the creativity here. Particularly if it was loaded up with cattle. Talk about using something to mask the smell from dogs and people. A trailer full of cattle would certainly produce enough waste to prevent me from examining the floor too closely. But our duty bound federal border agents did a great job of checking out the trailer and finding a bunch of drugs.
If you read the story, out there on the internet, it looks as though the guy did have cattle in the trailer. And it wasn't any smell that tipped off the agents, but a discrepancy in the floor. Once alerted, and once they have probable cause to suspect drugs are being transported in Kent and in the surrounding Seattle area (or even the Washington border) the cops can pretty much strip down the entire car. You would think the smugglers would have taken a little bit more time to make sure everything looks right, since they stood to lose up to $5 million in marijuana if caught.
What does this teach you about finding and hiring a criminal attorney? Not much, but it does teach you not to try to drive across the border with a ton of marijuana packed in so recklessly that the floorboards look messed up enough that a border agent thinks something is wrong even though the trailer is loaded with cattle.
I guess an additional tip I could offer is don't do any of that while driving drunk either...
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