An Innocent Looking Vehicle Inside A Suspicious Looking Vehicle

Buses hold a certain mystique for young children. Consider that “The Wheels on the Bus” is one of the first songs that most children learn. Little children who must ride in car seats in their parents’ cars, or in strollers when their parents travel on foot, perk up when they see big kids waiting at the bus stop, and especially when the school bus pulls up and extends the stop sign attached to its side. Riding on a public bus is an adventure for children. It is no wonder, then, that toy buses remain a perennial favorite, and not only among the most vehicle enamored children, the ones get excited whenever they see a dump truck or cement mixing truck ambling down the road or parked at a construction site. Even though toy buses might be on almost everyone’s Christmas wish list within a certain age range, they are not the obvious place to keep a stash of drugs. This did not stop police in South Florida from finding the drugs that a drug trafficking operation had entrusted to a toy school bus for safekeeping. If you are facing criminal charges because police found drugs in an unlikely vessel in your possession, contact a Tampa drug crime lawyer.

Man Faces Drug Delivery Charges After Police Find Pills Inside Toy School Bus

Police have the right to initiate a traffic stop whenever they see a driver break a traffic law. Sitting in a parked car in the parking lot of a retail store, by contrast, is perfectly legal. Despite this, police thought that Guillermo Higuera German’s car looked suspicious as he sat parked outside a Walgreens drugstore on Broward Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. An officer approached the car and asked Higuera German to show his driver’s license and proof of insurance. Higuera German said that he does not have a U.S. driver’s license. The insurance card that he showed the officer belonged to someone else. This further raised the officer’s suspicions, and he asked to search the car.

Higuera German consented to a search of his car, and the officer quickly found a toy school bus decorated with the Sesame Street logo. Inside the bus were hundreds of opioid pills, which eventually tested positive for fentanyl. The officer arrested Higuera German and recited the Miranda warnings. Rather than invoke his right to remain silent, Higuera German told the officer that he knew that the pills were inside the toy bus and that they contained illegal drugs. He said that he had promised to deliver them to an associate, who had promised to pay him $30,000. If Higuera chooses to plead not guilty, he may base his defense strategy on casting doubt on the validity of his confession. A more likely scenario is that he will seek a plea deal in which the state reduces his charges in exchange for his cooperation with the investigation into other members of the drug trafficking network.

Contact Tampa Criminal Defense Attorney Bryant Scriven

A criminal defense lawyer can help you get justice if you are facing criminal charges for transporting a stash of illegal drugs.  Contact Scriven Law in Tampa, Florida to schedule a consultation.

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