01-31-2019, 08:10 PM
Everybody is guilty until, maybe, they are proven innocent....
On December 5, Matt Crull pulled into a KFC parking lot, according to WPTV. Shortly thereafter, Deputy Steven O'Leary of the Martin County Sheriff's Office approached his car. O'Leary reportedly found a white powdery substance in the vehicle, which he said declared to be heroin after a field test, WPTV reported.92 grams of Tide....
Crull was arrested on charges of heroin possession and drug trafficking. The 28-year-old spent the next 41 days in the county jail.
"[It is] very surreal when you're sitting in jail with a half a million dollars bond, and you can't go anywhere knowing that you didn't do wrong," he told WYFF 4....
Crull told WPTV that the powder was not his. About three weeks before his arrest, he bought the vehicle, an Astro van, for $1,400. It didn't make sense to him that the previous owner would have left behind 92 grams of heroin in the driver's side door, as O'Leary said was the case.
"I just looked at him baffled and confused because I had no idea as to where 92 grams of heroin came from inside my van," ...
Crull is one of 11 people that O'Leary arrested on false charges, per Treasure Coast Newspapers. All 11 people have been released from jail. According to WYFF 4, all of Deputy O'Leary's previous arrests, which total to over 80, are being reviewed. It's unclear at this time how he fabricated the false test results.