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Can I be Charged With Drug Crimes Even When the Police are Investigating Something Else?

You would think that if the police come out for one purpose that they are not allowed to search your home and arrest you for other reasons. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Just ask the Lake Elsinore man under arrest by the Riverside County Sheriff’s department. The sheriff’s department was called to investigate a…

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Can I be convicted for being in possession of marijuana, meth, ecstasy or cocaine even if it belongs to someone else and I do not have physical possession of the drug?

At a first glance, it seems that the common-sense answer should be “No”. However, the law is not so much concerned with who owns the drug but with who possesses it. So for example, you can be convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony for holding (i.e. possessing) someone else’s meth. You can also be…