Busted

Abu Amin

Back in High School I was once arrested for smoking marijuana. It was during fall nice weather outside. Me and my friend, Mike, planned to get high and enjoy the night. Around 9 o'clock we went and picked up a bag of marijuana from some guy I knew smoked weed. Then we had the guy buy us papers and roll up for us. After we were done with him we went to the park to smoke the blunt. The park was empty and quiet, we thought it would be perfect nobody would come here. We lit up the blunt and passed it to each other. We weren't aware of any cops coming in the park, but a NYPD cruiser was patrolling the park. As soon as I saw the car I threw the blunt. The police car approached us and two police officers came out of the car. They asked us “What are you guys doing in the park so late the park is closed”. They smelled the marijuana by now. They flashed their flashlights on our face and searched us for possession of weed or any weapons. They couldn’t find anything on us. They started looking around searching for the blunt we were smoking. In the meantime, two other police vehicle entered the park with red and blue lights.

I felt like I committed some serious crime and the cops looked at me like I was some criminal. When the officers found the blunt, my heartbeat went up and I was paranoid from the weed. That was the worst moment of my life. Seconds after I hear the clicks of the handcuffs. Jack and I both were in the back seat of the cruiser. The police officers drove us to the precinct. One police officer searched me and took everything out of my pocket also took my shoe laces. Before I didn't know they take pre caution to make sure that people who are arrested don't commit suicide.

The officers put us in cell in precinct. The cell was dirty and it smelled like piss everywhere. From that incident I figured out that jail has a smell. When they took us to bookings it was the same smell. After couple of hours at the precinct cell they took us to bookings. When we arrived there they checked us again and put me and Jack in a cell with some other inmates. Inmates who got arrested recently and brought to bookings. We spent the night in that cell and we couldn't sleep. Not after what we have been through for last few hours. I was sixteen years old so was Jack so they called our parents to pick us up. In the morning we were released. I felt ashamed because I let my parents down. They didn't expect anything like this from me.