On the evening of February 13th, 2026, a Flaggler County detective stopped a white Toyota Camry in Palm Coast, Florida after the passenger threw a lit cigarette from the window. Two people were arrested, two felony cases. Your window doesn't work >> apparently. Okay. How you doing, Sergeant? We fly sharers. Obviously, your license. >> You what? >> I know. I recognize you. >> You recognize me? >> Yes, I do. >> She have ID on you by chance, sir? >> I do. >> Can I see that? >> Sure. So, you ashed out the window back there and it's >> I did. >> He did. >> And it sprayed the whole roadway with uh with uh like that red ash. >> So, it's actually >> against the law. >> Yes, it is against the law. >> Can you take it out of there for me, sir, if you don't mind? Just so no one can claim that you slipped a 20 behind your ID or something. He didn't advise me that he was in the area. >> Oh my god. How are you? >> All right. >> Yeah. So, no one So, >> no one claims he's trying to bribe me or something. >> The light on me. >> Yeah, there is because I don't know if you have any. >> Um I'm headed to my girlfriend's house over. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Um my insurance is on my phone. >> Sure. And your license as well if you have it? >> Yeah. Yep. >> Yep. You didn't hear me that yet. >> Okay. >> The big bulge in his hoodie is a beer or something, it looks like. >> All right. There you go. >> Oh, I'm sorry about that. I >> No, you're okay. You're allowed to have a beer. It's not open or nothing. No, >> I was just telling him so he didn't think it was a weapon. >> Now I know why he had the guy the the light on me. Did >> you get the insurance, man? I'm going to go back to >> Yeah, there goes Oh, no. What? >> That's okay. What's your name over there, sir? >> Chris. Chris. >> Christian. >> Huh? >> Kylie. Okay. Is he in the car? Anyone in the vehicle on probation or anything? >> No. >> No. Okay. >> All right. While you're looking for that, if you find it, just hold on to it. I'll let me check your license out. Okay. >> Do you mind walking, sir? >> Passenger ashed out the window and it like splashed orange all over the road. >> Hello, Por Sher. What's your name? >> Hi, Stacy Pringle. You >> mind turning off? Um, I have to use a screwdriver to shut her off. Okay. >> Was it stolen? >> No. Um, we're getting rid of it and the starter went. >> Gotcha. The I don't soloise or something like that. Yeah. >> Just leave all your stuff in the car. You don't need any of it. >> On the purse, too. >> Yeah. You don't need any of it. >> Okay. We're just going to talk back here for a second. >> We're just going to talk back here for a second. >> Any illegal drugs or anything like that in the car? >> I'm going walk my dog around the car. Okay. >> Hang out right here. >> Mag, you want to get him out? >> Hey, Chris, do you mind hopping out right quick? >> Yeah, sure. Any other weapons on you besides a knife in your pocket? No. >> Okay. Do you mind just uh you take it out and leave it on the seat? >> Taking what? >> The knife and put it on the seat. >> You can hop out. Do I need to? >> Yes. Is that a lawful order? >> It is a lawful order. >> All right. >> I don't understand what the problem is. >> What do you keep reaching for? >> Yeah. I'm not doing anything. >> Okay. Stop. I'm sorry. >> Okay. >> Apologize. I That's like the fourth time you've reached inside. >> I did not. I just got out of the car. >> Okay. Do you have medical marijuana card or anything like that? >> Yes, I do. >> Okay. Hold on. Without reaching for it. Okay. Do you have a medical marijuana on your person? >> Pardon? >> Do you have any medical marijuana on your person? >> On my person like in in my pocket? >> On your body? >> Yes. >> Okay. That's what I'm asking. It's in the packaging. >> When I'm out here with you, I can smell marijuana now. That's what >> Okay. So, you have marijuana in your pocket? >> Yes. In the packaging that comes from the dispensary. >> In the dispensary packaging. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Are you okay if I remove that? >> Uh, it's not in the dispensary packaging. >> That's what I just asked and you said yes. >> No, I'm I said I had a medical marijuana uh license or you know a card. >> Okay. All right. Cuz now that I'm here with you, like you wreak of marijuana. Okay. So, do me a favor. Just put your hands right here for me. Okay. And you were moving around a lot. Put your hands up here. >> What? What? >> Put your hands up here. Don't take them off the card. You understand? >> Yes, sir. >> When back there, you kept digging under your body when I was watching. >> I was pulling that beer out. >> Just search them real quick, Mike. >> Oh my god. I don't have any guns, weapons, anything like that. >> What is it? Cigarettes? >> Yes. I'm just going to take them out. Okay. For anything else in there? >> No. >> Where do you have a warrant for drugs out of like California or something? No. Ventura? >> No. That that was that was not uh >> That's not you. >> That's me. So it is you for possession of a controlled substance. >> No, it's not possession of a controlled substance. >> Ventura >> Ventura County. >> Where is that? >> It's in in California. It's right outside of Los Angeles. >> So it's for drugs out of California. >> It wasn't drugs, >> but they won't extradite you. >> What is it for? >> It was like It was That was like 20 years ago, literally. >> I don't know. I'm just saying seeing the warrant that popped up, >> right? I want to know why you're pulling me out of a car when I was >> Because we're going to walk a K9 around the vehicle. Okay. 10. That doesn't mean that you >> get your hand up there. Put your hand in the car. Okay. Don't take your hands off the car. >> I apologize. >> K said it's not in the container anyways. So, just >> Yeah. >> You're being detained for her safety. Okay. You understand? >> All right. Yes. >> Okay. >> I'm sorry. >> The whole time you were in the car, you were digging around. You kept dropping your hand underneath you. Okay. We don't know if you're going for a weapon or whatever. >> I know. I wasn't. >> Now that you're out of the vehicle, you smell a marijuana. Okay. >> Yes. >> You said that you don't have any marijuana in dispensary packaging. Okay. >> So, that's where we're at. Okay. Right. Yes. >> When you hit carry it, it needs to be in its prescription label bottle. >> Okay. Just like you get it. >> Yes. What is it? >> That does not look like marijuana. >> Huh? >> That that it's meth. >> That is not meth. That is not meth. I swear to God. Are you Are you serious? That is not meth. >> It certainly. >> That is not [ __ ] meth. That is not mine. >> It came out of your pocket. >> No, it didn't. >> Oh my god. >> That did not come out. >> Oh my god. >> No. Oh my god. Oh my god. >> You got to be kidding me. >> Don't put that over there. Oh my god. >> Let's walk back. >> Don't put it on. >> I did not. That is not mine. >> He said don't bring God into this. >> I wouldn't dare do that. >> Where is your Where's your medical marijuana card at? >> It's in my in my wallet. >> In your wallet? Is it valid? >> Pardon? >> Is it valid? >> Um Well, not not the uh not not the not the ID. No, >> your medical marijuana card is not valid. >> No, not not the not the card. The card isn't valid. >> So, you don't have a valid medical marijuana card. >> I do have a a valid medical Yes. >> I just asked you. >> I said the card wasn't the card isn't. >> What does that mean? >> If it's the Okay, the it's an old card is basically >> So, do you have a newer card or no? Correct. When I check the marijuana dispenser, you're going to be on it. >> Invalid. >> Yeah. >> Are you sure? >> Yes. >> Okay. I saying I was out here with him. I smelled it really strong on him when I got him out, but um by him saying it's not in the packaging and stuff. >> Yeah. I mean, >> and did you see it kept dropping his hand and digging under him back there? >> I apologize. I didn't >> I know. >> I mean, it's okay. You don't have to be sorry. You don't have to apologize. >> Grandma meth on you. >> Oh, what? A grandma? >> I did not have a grandma meth on you. >> You had this in your >> I have never done meth in my [ __ ] on you. Okay. What is it then? It's not methanol. >> Two g of Where did I go? I'm going to check your medical marijuana card as well, too. Okay. >> Sure. >> But you're saying the one you have on you is expired, correct? >> Correct. >> And that's in your wallet. >> It is. It's right there. >> Okay. But just like a prescription. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Bro, that's a chunk of meth right off of a freaking block. Look at that. What do you mean, dude? I haven't known this 19 years. You don't think I know what meth looks like? >> I just I'm sure you do. I'm not saying that [laughter] you don't. >> It came out of your pocket. >> I do not do I do not do math. That is not my [ __ ] uh >> Are those your pants? >> These are my Of course. Yeah. Oh. Oh, I was just asking. >> I was just asking if they're your pants. I don't >> I don't think so. Yeah, this expired in 2021, boss. 5 years ago. >> Where's your new card at? >> My new my new card uh was it was in the mail. Uh I I received it like two day like a day after or whatever. I lost it and then I put it back in. >> Yeah. And then I put I uh I wasn't I applied for another one or you know asked him to send me another one >> from 2021. >> No, it was that's just the one I have now. >> Thank you. doesn't matter. What am I worried about? >> Sorry. Nothing on your groin or nothing like that? No, >> it's been around. Yeah. All right, just come back here. Lean against the car. Beach 21. Beach 22. Heat up here. I got a little more my uh I swear to you my uh my wife I just looked on the dispensary database. We haven't had one since 2022. >> 4 years. Really? >> Yeah. Really? >> And you're not allowed to possess it. the streets. >> No, ask me from a dispensary. >> Who has a what do you call it? Who has medical marijuana? I swear to you. >> It doesn't work that way. >> People that have a medical marijuana card. >> Well, and they've they've never you've you've never heard of someone like getting another, you know, another person. >> Oh, we hear about it all the time, but it's illegal. We hear about boogie all day long. >> But it's all but it's illegal. >> That's not what I mean. >> It's illegal. >> Come on. You know what I'm talking about. >> It's illegal. It says you can't possess it. >> Because you don't have >> because I like the the Delta 9. >> Because you don't have a car, >> right? >> Well, I I found Correct. >> You can't go into a dispensary and buy it is what we're saying. >> Well, I got you from a head shop. >> You can't possess it. >> Why can't I possess it if I get it from a head shop? I I totally >> You said that's for uh Delta 9 from a >> Delta 9. Yeah, >> I I'm I I prefer Delta 9. Is that illegal? >> What is that? >> No, Delta 9's not >> Yeah, exactly. >> So, why is it in that bag? >> Pardon? >> Is it in the Del Delta 9 bag? >> It's because they put it in the glass things. >> No, no, no. >> They put it in the glass container. >> Oh, which one? Which store? >> The one over here right here by the um >> Blazing Flame. Yeah, >> they have it in a glass container and they put it in that bag for you. >> No, that's just usually where I go to get it >> in a glass container. >> In a glass container. >> And what do they put it in >> when you buy it? >> What do you mean that what do you mean by that? >> When you buy it at Blazing Flame and it's in a large glass container >> and you buy a gram or two at a time. Right. >> Right. >> What do they put it in when you buy it? >> A bag. >> What kind of bag? Um, like a black thing. Black >> that says Delta 9 and what it is. >> Well, I'm sorry. You mean the packaging? >> Dude, you are driving. You're playing dumb and it's not helping you at all. >> Well, I didn't Yeah, that's not my [ __ ] uh I'm going That That's not my intentions. That's not my intent. >> They'll be they'll be able to test if that's Delta 9 or not. And when it comes back as not Delta 9, >> right, >> you're alive. >> What? >> What do you mean? Why would it not come back Delta 9? >> Cuz it's not. It's that is funny. >> No, it's not. No, it's not. >> We've been doing this since 2009 and the legal [ __ ] you can buy at gas stations. You don't ride around with it. People don't [ __ ] use that [ __ ] every day. >> A bag like that to sell it to you. >> So, you see all this purple right here? >> Here. >> Yeah. >> That means that's weed. That's THC. >> See how it's already turning purple, >> right? >> That's THC. telling me that that that >> this is weed. >> I know, but are you telling me that that delta 9 isn't a form of THC or what? >> It's a form. It's illegal. >> Has THC in it? Well, we're a concentration of uh.3%. >> I guess I do look like you see right here. All this all this dark purple right here. That's all purple. Same color as that for THC. You want me check? I'm going to test the stuff up top in the back. >> All right. We also got a scale with some white res. >> Okay. I'll search for stuff. >> At least he said those are his pants, >> huh? This long and No, this was he's talking about the beer. The beer is in his pocket in the back seat. Not a crime. >> Well, I told Mag had a big bulge there, but it was a beer. So, he took it out and he threw it in the back seat. Those pants. >> I I told I asked him. He said, "Yes." >> He said they were his pants. Good. Oh my god. >> You're displaying all the symptoms, all the >> all the cues of a meth addict. Yes. >> Really? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Something cheeks, erratic behavior. >> Something cheeks. >> Yes. Something cheeks. Somebody somebody just said today you put weight on it handle stuff. >> Yeah. >> Stacy's looking hard at me opening this little pill bottle. >> Oh, Stacy. >> Stacy. >> Oh my god. >> Oh my god. You got I messed [laughter] up on you too. What? >> And her pill bottle in her hand. >> Ask us if we're shocked. >> This is my shocked face. >> [ __ ] screaming. >> Nope. >> And guess what, Stacey? We're going to seize your car for forfeite as well. Okay. >> Oh my god. >> Oh my god. That's right. >> Are we? It's early. >> Yeah, we are. >> It's like a couple hundred. >> Yeah. You need a lesson. >> All right. >> I need a lesson. >> Remember last time we caught the guy? That's right. The second time we caught the guy driving your car. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah, that's the second time. >> Those break keys. >> Those keys. >> Those weren't Those aren't her keys. >> Holding these in her hand. >> It's for my storage. I have those for my storage. >> Opening this. She's just staring at me. >> That's for my storage. You >> stared at me pretty hard opening. That's the only reason. >> They thought like if they took the drugs out of the car. >> Yeah. >> The dog wouldn't find them. >> No, that's not it at all. >> It is. >> No, it's not. >> Do you have a kit? Jesus Christ. >> It looks like two bags a month. >> Two bags. >> What? Who's there? >> Oh, yeah. Package for sale. >> It's two bags a month. Stacy. Stacy. Stacy. >> Hello. Can you do a follow call search on her, please? She's under arrest. You can face right here. You don't have anything on your person that's going to [ __ ] me, sick me, nothing. No drugs that I'm going to find. >> Obviously, you and I will know once you get into the jail. >> It's never a good thing. >> There you go. >> All right. Do you want to try this again or >> Okay, I'm just going to read your rights real quick, bro. Cuz I want to talk to you. I want to ask you a couple questions. So, >> obviously, you're in handcuffs right now. So, >> you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. Have a right to talk to a lawyer. Have him or her present with you while being questioned. Can't afford to hire a lawyer. Won't be appointed to represent you before any questions upon your request. decide to exercise his rights at any time, not answer any questions, make any statements. You understand the rights to ride to? >> Yes, I do. >> Where were you guys heading? >> Um, I was asking for a ride. You wanted to be more like that. >> Where were you getting picked up from? >> Where picked up from? >> Yeah, you were asking for a ride. >> Oh, no, no, no. I mean, I I asked for >> Where were you coming from? >> Coming from home. >> Where do you live at? >> On the W section. >> You don't stay in the P section no more? >> Providence or whatever it was. Where you standing in the W? >> Um, well land. >> How do you know her? >> That's your opinion. >> Um, >> so the dope that was on you, is that did she give that to you? Is that yours or something? >> So, we're talking about the weed, right? the meth that was in the bar. >> No, that Yeah, that's not >> Okay. Is it How How would it have gotten on you? >> I just explained to this guy. >> Yeah, I don't know. I I wasn't I was searching. >> Well, you know these I just got these from uh well from >> We need the car key. Oh, earlier today. >> Oh, today you got it? >> Yeah. Okay. >> You have a receipt or anything? >> Sure. Um well, not on me, I don't think. >> Okay. >> You don't use meth? >> No. >> Have you ever used meth? No. >> Do you use anything else than weed? >> Um, no. >> You see nothing? No. >> I mean, you can't drink, >> right? I mean, >> arguably a drug. Some people call it a drug, some people don't. >> Well, it's a drug when my brother drinks it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> So, as far as you knew, the methyl was in your pocket. I mean, you're you're not it's just I've been in this game for a little bit. All right. She's got meth. She's known to use meth. >> Every time we stop her, she has meth. And now you have meth. It's just very strange. >> Make it make sense. >> Yeah. I don't know if >> do you at least see where I'm coming from or >> I do. Come on. No, I know. I mean, no, cuz I play this game with some people and they have no idea what I'm talking about. That >> and to tell you the truth, my my ex-wife >> normally uh what do you call keeps my uh what do you call it? Uh my medicinal card, >> you know, up to date. So it's really strange that you know I realize that I actually rather the delta you know 9. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When's the last time you got Delta 9? >> You're buy you buy it off the street as Delta 9 or you get it from gas station? >> No. If it's not a gas station, >> it's the uh the new um >> smoke shop or whatever. >> Smoke shop. Yeah. So then once you over here >> once you get it, you put it in a plastic bag. >> Yeah, definitely. >> Okay. >> So you move it from the container into the plastic bag. Center console, you can see it's completely pulled out and like goes almost down into the transmission. >> This in the car. >> Is it hot? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> You want to move down a little bit? >> What do you want? We start on 50. Uh yeah, we got 81 already on the way. So yeah, >> yeah. >> Is there any other you you've never used hard narcotics? >> You've never used any kind of hard narcotics or anything like that? No. Some people do, some people don't. It's just on my back. Right. My bra. Yeah. Like I said, I mean, it just doesn't make sense to me. So, I wanted to give you the opportunity to maybe clear it up a little bit. So, >> I hope I did. Do >> you want to just transport them both with her? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I think both those she gets those IDs that are what they're IDs that are on my hood. Make sure >> Oh, yeah. You got >> Where'd you put the rest of the stuff? >> Oh, wait. >> The evidence. >> You want to get more done real quick? Yeah, I'm going to get another one >> right there. >> I'm going to get one more search before you go in the back of the car. We'll do it back here >> just cuz he's standing there. It's a little awkward. We'll head back to the black pickup. All right. >> You see the front of the white car there? >> Yeah. >> We'll head to that. >> Okay. >> A thrown cigarette is a violation of Florida statute 590.125. trivial on its face, but it is a lawful basis for a traffic stop, and the Fourth Amendment asks only that, a lawful basis. The passenger was making repeated movements toward his waistband while still seated in the vehicle. Terry versus Ohio, decided by the Supreme Court in 1968, holds that an officer may conduct a protective patown when specific articulable facts suggest a person may be armed and dangerous. Waistband reaches during initial contact are exactly that kind of fact. The detective detected a marijuana odor on approach. That odor is independently significant. It extends the legal basis for detention beyond the original infraction. Under Pennsylvania versus Mims and Maryland versus Wilson, both occupants can be ordered out of the vehicle during any lawful stop. No additional justification needed. The K9 deployment is where this stop's legal architecture becomes interesting. Florida versus Harris. A 2013 Supreme Court ruling that originated in Flaggler County itself holds that a certified K9 alert establishes probable cause to search a vehicle. No warrant required. The alert is the authority. Once that alert fires, United States versus Ross controls. The 1982 decision allows officers to search anywhere inside the vehicle where contraband might reasonably be found. the trunk, the center console, on the occupants persons. The automobile exception swallows the car whole. The passenger, Christian Highly, claimed the crystallin substance found in his pocket was legal delta 9 THC from a smoke shop. That argument collapsed the moment he admitted he had transferred it out of its original container. Florida law requires legal hemp products to remain in their original labeled packaging. That distinction is what separates lawful possession from a controlled substance charge under Florida statute 893.13 subsection 6A. The roadside conversation before High's arrest did not require Miranda. Burkimer versus McCarti 1984 establishes that routine traffic stop questioning even with a detained subject is not custodial interrogation. Miranda attaches at arrest, not detention. Highly talked freely the entire time. Every word was admissible. After handcuffs went on, the detective read Miranda highly acknowledged understanding his rights and kept talking. That implicit waiver continuing to speak voluntarily after advisement is constitutionally sufficient under North Carolina versus Butler. The post arrest statements highly made about the substance are in play at trial. The driver, Stacy Pringle, presented a different legal picture entirely. Multiple prepackaged bags recovered from her keychain and clothing are not a personal use quantity. Florida statute 893.13 subsection 1A defines possession with intent to sell as knowingly possessing a controlled substance with intent to deliver it. Quantity and packaging are the primary circumstantial indicators courts use. Both are documented here. The detective noted on camera that every prior stop of Pringle's vehicle has produced methamphetamine. That prior pattern does not by itself prove intent, but it is the kind of documented history a prosecutor puts in front of a jury to argue this was not a one-time mistake. It is a distribution pattern. After arrest and during booking, deputies found additional narcotics concealed on Pringle's person that triggered Florida statute 951.22 introduction of contraband into a detention facility. A thirdderee felony carrying up to 5 years separate from the possession charge. It is its own criminal act. Highly faces a thirddegree felony for methamphetamine possession up to 5 years in state prison. A thirdderee felony in Florida is not a county jail sentence. It is state prison. It strips voting rights, creates a permanent felony record, and affects professional licensing and federal housing eligibility for life. Pringle faces a seconddegree felony for possession with intent to sell up to 15 years plus five more for the contraband introduction charge run consecutively. That is a 20-year ceiling. She has prior law enforcement contacts, no documented mitigating factors, and an independent criminal act committed after arrest. First offender treatment is not realistic here. The detective receives an A minus. The stop was legally grounded. The K9 sequence was proper. Miranda was administered at the right moment and the interview technique produced documented inconsistencies without a single constitutional violation. The case was built correctly from first contact. Highly receives a D. He talked at every stage before arrest, after arrest, on and off camera without invoking the right to silence once. Pringle receives a D. Multiple distribution quantity bags, a documented enforcement history, and the decision to conceal narcotics after arrest added a second felony to an already serious case. Three things worth taking from this stop. A thrown cigarette opened the door to two felony arrests. Officers need only one lawful reason to make contact. The rest unfolds from there. Knowing that does not mean every stop ends this way. It means every stop carries the potential. Highly spoke for nearly 30 minutes without counsel. The fifth amendment right to silence cannot be used against a person at trial. Every voluntary statement made without a lawyer present can be. The gap between those two outcomes was every word he chose to say. Let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic that you would like us to discuss in the comments below. 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