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Woman spends weeks in prison and loses her job after police mistook SpaghettiOs on her spoon for meth

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Published 20:09 2 Oct 2024 GMT+1

Woman spends weeks in prison and loses her job after police mistook SpaghettiOs on her spoon for meth

Being enraged with this whole incident would be a very acceptable response

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

Featured Image Credit: Hall County Sheriff's Office/Getty Stock Image

Topics: Police, US News, Drugs, Reddit, Weird, Food and Drink

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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A woman initially charged with methamphetamine possession was released weeks later when lab analysis proved she did nothing wrong.

Ashley Gabrielle Huff was 23 when a police officer arrested her for what they believed was drug possession.

A member of the Gainesville police department spotted a spoon in their vehicle and for reasons known to them, believed the dried residue on it was meth.

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The smile of a woman who knew she did absolutely nothing wrong (Hall County Sheriff's Office)
The smile of a woman who knew she did absolutely nothing wrong (Hall County Sheriff's Office)

Huff repeatedly maintained it was simple SpaghettiO’s sauce but this seemingly didn’t stop the woman from being taken to jail.

She was arrested on July 2 back in 2014 and released a month later after she was vindicated by lab results.

Hall County assistant public defender Chris van Rossem attempted to explain how on earth this mistake ended up happening.

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He said: “I think she said it had been SpaghettiOs.

“From what I understand, she was a passenger in a car and had a spoon on her, near her, and I guess the officer, for whatever reason, thought there was some residue.

“She’s maintained all along that there’s no way in hell that’s any sort of drug residue or anything like that.”

I mean... yes, if you know you'd simply been eating some lunch off your spoon rather than doing illicit drugs, you would firmly affirm your innocence.

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Rossem added: “I think what the unfortunate part about her case is that she was probably willing to take the felony to close out her case so that she get out of jail, even though she always maintained innocence."

A delicious picture of me...I mean SpaghettiO’s (Getty Stock Image)
A delicious picture of me...I mean SpaghettiO’s (Getty Stock Image)

Huff had no prior arrests prior to the incident and it had a significant impact on her life according to reports.

Due to her jail time, Huff missed her own child’s birthday and lost her job at Waffle House. At the time, Huff was considering legal action against the police department, it is not clear if she ever went through with this decision.

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The story has repeatedly been discussed and shared on social media with people baffled by the whole incident.

“Any cop that mistakes spaghetti O sauce for meth shouldn't have a job,” one person wrote on a Reddit post about the issue.

“Im gonna start carrying around a bunch of spoons with dried up yogurt residue on it and just wait to be arrested. Few days in jail for a fat payout? Sure,” joked another.

“How can someone be so incompetent, that they think spaghetti-o sauce is meth?” a third wrote.

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