A passenger involved in a conflict with a taxi driver could claim the title of most serious criminal

And who is here? “It’s not where I get it from if I lost my phone yesterday,” the man tried to shake off the responsibility when he saw the paper containing the white powder. But to no avail, after officers’ examination of the man, more drugs were found in his jacket pocket.

Therefore, a resident of Klaipėda who was reluctant to pay for a phone in a taxi belonging to the Bolt company caused inconvenience: due to the illegal storage of psychotropic substances without the intention of selling or distributing them, the man was prosecuted. In addition, he was arrested and had to spend a day in police custody, and Judge Violeta Olcvikienė, who had examined the criminal case, announced that the man would have to spend 20 more days in custody.

The judge imposed such a sentence on her husband not only on the basis of the guilty evidence collected in the criminal case, but also on the convict’s past: he had previously been convicted four times for theft and once for illegal possession of psychotropic substances.

“The defendant committed a crime related to the possession of psychotropic substances, has been convicted several times in the past, has committed a criminal conviction, for which he is considered a repeat offender, has valid administrative sanctions, it does not work,” said the court. .

According to the file, it was found that a man living in a port city found a mixture of 0.028 g of amphetamine in a mobile phone case and 0.006 g of cannabis and plant material containing tetrahydrocannabinol in a jacket pocket.

This whole story took place on the morning of February 28, when a Klaipėda resident decided to go to the police for help.

“Around 9 pm I called the General Emergency Number and reported that I had left the Samsung Galaxy A21, which is with the taxi driver, in the car after using the taxi service, the man said during the interview. – When I noticed the disappearance of the phone, I did not contact the officials immediately, because I was trying to find out for myself. Noticing at night that I left the phone in the taxi, I went to see a friend and asked him to call me, and when he called, my taxi driver answered my phone, saying that he would return the phone to me when I paid him € 20. I didn’t agree to pay, so I went to the police. “

The Klaipeda resident thought the taxi driver was illegally demanding money from him.

“I called the taxi driver and told him that I would pay 20 euros when I came to see him, police also came, and at that moment there was a conflict over money,” he said.

The taxi driver, who demanded payment for the pick-up service, assured that the passenger had agreed to pay the money, but did not do so.

“A passenger left a phone in my car that another passenger found,” said the taxi driver. – An hour or a half later, a man called by phone and asked to bring a phone, he said he would pay. I couldn’t bring it in at the time because I had other requests, but I promised to call later when it was free. But I forgot and after work I went to rest at Boar Gardens. Then the man called again, but I told him that now I would not go anywhere because I am tired, and then I wrote him a message that if he wanted a phone today, to come to the gardens near the store and I will be back. the phone for him. The boy asked me to bring him back, he promised to pay, he himself said he would give 20 Eur. I got together and brought the phone, but not only the passenger but also the policemen were waiting for me. “

The taxi driver said that he had handed over a mobile phone to the officers, but had warned the police beforehand: He offered to see what was behind the protective back of the phone: When the back of the phone came loose, the paper was it fell. When the paper fell, I realized that there might be banned substances there. I did not return what was there. “

A video from the officers’ Body camera was attached to the criminal case. It records how an official tells a taxi driver that a customer has left the phone in the car and is charged € 20 for it.

Driver: – I asked him how much he would give to bring. Why do I have to charge it for nothing? “

Passenger: – This is what we could have come by ourselves. So who did you tell?

Driver: – I told you to come, why didn’t you come to Boar, I was at home.

Passenger: – Yes, do we have to travel?

Driver: – Yes, you have to ride, why do I have to bring you? You explain to me why I have some time at my work damn shit I found it?

The officer then asks the driver to whom he reported that he found the phone. The driver claims he informed his employer, Bolt, about the phone. And then officials are told to see what’s under the phone case.

Passenger: – It’s not mine here. Where did I get here from? If I lost my phone yesterday.

Driver: – When I found it, I wanted to give it to the police and you play like this, please. Please clarify now. I found your phone, looked at what’s in here.

Then the police officer asked what was hidden under the phone case.

Passenger: – I don’t know myself, I mean, they let me go, I rode with a girl, they let me go at a stop and everything. I am looking for a phone.

Although the passenger assured him that he was drug-free while leaving the phone in the taxi, officials boarded him in an official car and ordered him to remove the phone’s security sleeve, which contained a folded, light-colored paper. When folded, it turned out to contain a white powder.

The man was arrested and taken to Klaipeda University Hospital for drug testing; Urinalysis revealed amphetamines and cannabinoids / marijuana in his body.

And when the man drowned in police custody, cannabis was also found in his right jacket pocket.

“The material of plant origin was not packaged, it was loose in the jacket pocket, and when we asked the person what was here through the material, he indicated that he did not know,” the official later explained.

Although at the beginning of the investigation the Klaipėda resident explained that he did not know anything about the amphetamine hidden in the mobile phone case, later during the interview he admitted that after returning the phone to the policemen, he first looked for a paper brochure. with amphetamine.

“I was afraid the driver had picked it up,” he said.

The defendant assured that he bought amphetamines in Palanga, under the bridge, from a stranger: “I bought amphetamines for myself, I wanted to see its effects, I paid 15-20 euros.”

When asked where the “weed” came from, the man also did not speak: I had forgotten there were traces of it in my jacket pocket, I had bought the “weed” a long time ago, for my own needs. “

He also claimed that he was not addicted to drugs, nor did he distribute them to anyone, but only acquired them for his own use, to “test” them.